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Noun
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Jibber-jabbering inanities, Cranston’s cohorts find a solution: Pour coke down his nose.—
Steve Garbarino,
HollywoodReporter,
10 July 2025 -
Adams has conditioned New Yorkers to expect so much inanity and cartoonishness that the news was greeted with a kind of glee.—
Eric Lach,
The New Yorker,
26 Sep. 2024
Noun
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To illustrate the absurdity of adhering too closely to genre conventions, Galloway describes a plot about an innocent girl who winds up in a strange town.—
Erik Pedersen,
Oc Register,
7 Aug. 2025
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Drama, laughs, and a healthy dose of absurdity ensue.—
Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
6 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Such lunacy will plague Edgewater for generations to come.—
Steve Weinshel,
Chicago Tribune,
20 July 2025
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In the meantime, his past drug use and depression were trotted back out in the lunacy of the Diddy rumor mill.—
Craig Jenkins,
Vulture,
14 July 2025
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“Nincompoopery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nincompoopery. Accessed 19 Aug. 2025.
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