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  • adjective superlative form of loony: most loony.

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Examples

  • We sound like the looniest of the alarmists when we say stuff like this.

    Coyote Blog » 2009 » November 2009

  • But luckily, a down-to-the-wire veto competition and the looniest game move in weeks helped the episode turn out OK after all!

    Big Brother Recap: Veto Competition/Ceremony 5 2011

  • Unfortunately her constituency is comprised of the looniest of all US liberals, which gives her a free license to lunacy.

    2010 won't be like 1994, says Pelosi 2009

  • We sound like the looniest of the alarmists when we say stuff like this.

    Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Dangers of a Monoculture — Reactions to the CRU Emails 2009

  • I first encountered Rossini, for instance, in Chuck Jones's "Rabbit of Seville," which made brilliantly apposite use of the "Barber of Seville" overture as background music for one of the looniest of all Looney Tunes cartoons.

    Why 'Fantasia' Mattered—Just Ask Gunther Schuller Terry Teachout 2011

  • The looniest proposal was for a “snake call,” a small device that made a strangled shhhhh sound that was supposed to convince Japanese soldiers that they were surrounded by snakes, which—to judge by folklore—inspired inordinate fear and would theoretically cause panic, confusion, and surrender.

    A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

  • Most of the time Tessa thinks Yllis is the looniest of them all.

    Amaryllis in Blueberry Christina Meldrum 2011

  • Most of the time Tessa thinks Yllis is the looniest of them all.

    Amaryllis in Blueberry Christina Meldrum 2011

  • The looniest proposal was for a “snake call,” a small device that made a strangled shhhhh sound that was supposed to convince Japanese soldiers that they were surrounded by snakes, which—to judge by folklore—inspired inordinate fear and would theoretically cause panic, confusion, and surrender.

    A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

  • But even the dottiest diets can work, for the single thing that accounts for the success of even the looniest is that you are forced to be aware of everything you're eating.

    The Katharine Whitehorn experience 2011

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