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Noun
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Advertisement Aster keenly satirizes Joe’s idiocy in the face of social upheaval through the iconography of Westerns.—
Robert Daniels,
Time,
10 Oct. 2025 -
But my naivete and idiocy about what this was going to take was staggering to me just six months later.—
Scott Feinberg,
HollywoodReporter,
19 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Boy stuff and the preposterousness of it all.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
27 Aug. 2025
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Italian football is compelling in its sheer unpredictability, the sweep of its beauty and preposterousness on so many levels.—
James Horncastle,
New York Times,
21 Aug. 2025
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The restaurant is worth the trek, too, with relatively small, tasty burgers that are topped with all manner of craziness, from peanut butter to giardiniera to sauerkraut to pineapple.—
Jared Kaufman,
Twin Cities,
22 Oct. 2025
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Oh, and the milchiks, and flaishiks besides, all those meshuggeneh rules and regulations on top of their own private craziness!—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
20 Oct. 2025
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The ball sailed over the head of Spencer Torkelson, Martínez and Steven Kwan advanced a base and set in motion a flurry of zaniness that flipped the script for the series opener.—
Zack Meisel,
New York Times,
24 Sep. 2025
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Annually, Wheeler has to demonstrate his manic-zaniness by jumping out the window of a local business.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 Aug. 2025
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Snell needed none of the wackiness and very little help to put up his string of zeroes.—
Bill Plunkett,
Oc Register,
14 Oct. 2025
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But wackiness ensues, crimes are solved, and every episode sees Morgan drop two or three factoids that have a high potential of coming up at your next trivia night.—
Bethy Squires,
Vulture,
17 Sep. 2025
Noun
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But that inanity, that ridiculousness is embedded in the story.—
Shania Russell,
Entertainment Weekly,
29 Sep. 2025
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For the past four years, Honan has been a worm in Adams’s apple, scoring scoop after scoop about the dramas, inanities, and intrigues of his administration.—
Eric Lach,
New Yorker,
21 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Alps is really about the absurdity of acting in general, and perhaps the specific psychological burden of the Method in particular.—
A.A. Dowd,
Vulture,
24 Oct. 2025
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The costumes point out the absurdity of bringing National Guard troops into cities, Faith Gill said.—
Darcie Moran,
Freep.com,
22 Oct. 2025
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What keeps The Chair Company engaging are its spurts of tangential lunacy: An earnest conversation between Ron and Natalie about Wendy’s, the fast-food chain, experimenting with ham-carving stations in select locations.—
Kristen Baldwin,
Entertainment Weekly,
9 Oct. 2025
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There was the escalating lunacy of Sal and Quinn’s backlot power struggle, up to and including a hurled burrito.—
Joe Reid,
Vulture,
30 Aug. 2025
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