1
as in insanity
a foolish act or idea
you want to sneak into the building after the alarm is set—what lunacy!
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as in dementia
a serious mental disorder that prevents one from living a safe and normal life
the judge ruled that the lunacy of the accused made him incompetent to stand trial
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as in madness
lack of good sense or judgment
was it desperation or lunacy that caused him to quit his job and move to California without any plan for what to do when he got there?
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Recent Examples of lunacy
Ultimately the inevitable showdown between Hutch and the Queen Bee that Stone embodies also works, not just for the inventive bloodletting, but also the LOL lunacy of it all.
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Pete Hammond, Deadline, 13 Aug. 2025
No Broward official ever enacted such lunacies as banning fluoride in our water.
—Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 9 Aug. 2025
Such lunacy will plague Edgewater for generations to come.
—Steve Weinshel, Chicago Tribune, 20 July 2025
Epstein is a lose-lose situation for Trump Compounding the lunacy, there’s no way for Trump or anyone else to calm the outrage.
—Bill Goodykoontz, AZCentral.com, 14 July 2025
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Pete Hammond, Deadline, 13 Aug. 2025
No Broward official ever enacted such lunacies as banning fluoride in our water.
—Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 9 Aug. 2025
Such lunacy will plague Edgewater for generations to come.
—Steve Weinshel, Chicago Tribune, 20 July 2025
Epstein is a lose-lose situation for Trump Compounding the lunacy, there’s no way for Trump or anyone else to calm the outrage.
—Bill Goodykoontz, AZCentral.com, 14 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for lunacy
Noun
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Johnson had pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity, the outlets reported.—
Samira Asma-Sadeque,
PEOPLE,
15 Sep. 2025
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The gunman was found not guilty by reason of insanity and spent decades at a mental hospital before he was released in 2016 and freed from court restrictions in 2022.—
Chris Boyette,
CNN Money,
14 Sep. 2025
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Cortes' dad, 82-year-old Julio Rivera, has COPD, diabetes and late-stage vascular dementia.—
Madeline Mitchell,
USA Today,
19 Sep. 2025
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The sisters have taken time to give fans a peek into their time with family in recent months, particularly after their dad's 2022 frontotemporal dementia (FTD) diagnosis.—
Charlotte Phillipp,
PEOPLE,
19 Sep. 2025
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Also along for the ride is Anthony Carrigan as the enigmatic Bodie, dragged into the fray as the mystery unravels into madness.—
Jen Juneau,
PEOPLE,
17 Sep. 2025
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That’s because just two weeks separate the regular season from October madness, and MLB’s playoff race could not be more chaotic.—
Johnny Flores Jr,
New York Times,
15 Sep. 2025
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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
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McCarthy and his cronies engineered a hysteria over left-wing ideologies and their sympathizers, encouraging tactics like loyalty oaths and provoking paranoia over a suggestion that communist spies were omnipresent in America.—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
Entertainment Weekly,
18 Sep. 2025
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Our hearts go out to his family, but this should not have become a springboard for hysteria, partisanship, and meltdown.—
Paul Bedard,
The Washington Examiner,
13 Sep. 2025
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Consider the absurdity of carving a single oozing arancini into three or four pieces, doling out two measly salad leaves each to a foursome, or hacking a pristine fish fillet into chum for five.—
Maggie Hennessy,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
18 Sep. 2025
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The movie works, no question, even at the peak of its absurdity.—
Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
18 Sep. 2025
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This means that all of the orders a seller receives can now benefit from the speed, reliability, and simplicity of Amazon's fulfillment—with MCF fulfilling millions more orders quickly and reliably year-over-year.—
Hugh Cameron,
MSNBC Newsweek,
19 Sep. 2025
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Categories that don’t deliver on validation, simplicity and palatability often struggle to scale.—
Fairchild Studio,
Footwear News,
19 Sep. 2025
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Occupying a two-mile run from Beach Boulevard south to the Newport Beach line, State Beach is family friendly and features many of the amenities of its northern neighbor without the volume of crowds, hassles or craziness.—
Greg Mellen,
Oc Register,
19 Sep. 2025
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On Maura’s plan to protect people’s vaccines against Robert Kennedy’s craziness, crickets.—
Chris Van Buskirk,
Boston Herald,
15 Sep. 2025
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“Lunacy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lunacy. Accessed 22 Sep. 2025.
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