as in eccentric
a person of odd or whimsical habits
The neighbors dismissed her as a loony when she painted sheep on her house.
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as in stupid
showing or marked by a lack of good sense or judgment
that's got to be the looniest idea I've ever heard
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Recent Examples of loony
Jon Allsop,
New Yorker,
16 Apr. 2026
Dark loony New York comedy, but still.
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Bill Goodykoontz,
AZCentral.com,
27 Aug. 2025
None of them care what their grandiose and loony ideas cost ordinary people.
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Susan Shelley,
Daily News,
16 Apr. 2025
Hong Kong audiences didn’t completely vibe with the film’s loony superhero shtick upon its release.
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Vikram Murthi,
Vulture,
4 Mar. 2024
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Adjective
Read the story » More Top Stories Rebecca Mead on the Romanian director Radu Jude, whose loony, brilliant movies explore his native city of Bucharest.
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Jon Allsop,
New Yorker,
16 Apr. 2026
Dark loony New York comedy, but still.
—
Bill Goodykoontz,
AZCentral.com,
27 Aug. 2025
None of them care what their grandiose and loony ideas cost ordinary people.
—
Susan Shelley,
Daily News,
16 Apr. 2025
Hong Kong audiences didn’t completely vibe with the film’s loony superhero shtick upon its release.
—
Vikram Murthi,
Vulture,
4 Mar. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for loony
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With its loose ends and digressions, Dream Me a Dream stays true to those idiosyncratic instincts while retaining enough of the welcoming glow of Dance of Love to make this an affecting farewell from an endearing eccentric.
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The eccentric cuz is quick to try and help Bobby solve problems, which often gets him into trouble, but ultimately pushes him out of his shell.
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And no, that was NOT OutKick or FOX who wrote that stupid headline.
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The thing about House of the Dragon is that everything really is quite stupid.
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There was a small card with a graphic that pictured Wiley walking in the middle of Bluey and Bingo, two characters from the show.
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Her refusal to sugarcoat the interior and exterior lives of her characters, whether enslaved or traumatized by the past — by events in American history — was purposeful.
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Every player with a pulse had six suitors throwing silly money around.
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Some scenes in the movie are light and silly, including those pairing Maddie with a lesbian friend, played by Kate Berlant, who clearly loves her.
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People who see ghosts tend to see the same ghost wafting down the same staircase, but none of the characters populating Leo’s wacko hallucinations have returned for a repeat perfor-mance.
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This wacko crew was one of the greatest things in the history of television.
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For example, Fred Again is absolutely doing insane things with the MPC Lives.
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That dwarfs anything the powerhouse Spain teams did in the early 2010s, when the team was known for stringing together an insane number of passes that led to a goal.
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Artists have always used music to question authority and expose the cracks (and the crackpots) in the American story.
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In one corner, the heartless girlboss; in the other, the crackpot conspiracy theorist (who just happens to be more sympathetic and charismatic than such types usually are).
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Further, Plato’s disdain for Gorgias, Antisthenes’ first teacher, and sophistry in general is clear; in the Platonic dialogue Gorgias, the titular character is made out to be rather foolish.
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One is villianized and one is made to look foolish.
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“Loony.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/loony. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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