Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Extremely foolish or silly.
- adjective Mentally deranged; crazy.
- noun A foolish or crazy person.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
luny .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun someone mentally deranged and possibly dangerous.
- adjective Low, U.S. Crazy; insane; lunatic; mentally unsound.
- adjective Very foolish; very impractical.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective of a person
insane - adjective of a thing very
silly ,absurd - noun An insane or very foolish person
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone deranged and possibly dangerous
- adjective informal or slang terms for mentally irregular
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Sorry about using the term loony left - I've been spending too much time looking at Labour Home - I think a £7 an hour minimum wage and renewable energy policies are nuts though.
Orderly Transition? Praguetory 2007
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His climate change misstep follows several reversals on issues and just plain loony comments on gays, women, Medicare, Social Security and taxes.
Ellen Dumm: Will the Buck Ever Stop? Ellen Dumm 2010
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His climate change misstep follows several reversals on issues and just plain loony comments on gays, women, Medicare, Social Security and taxes.
Ellen Dumm: Will the Buck Ever Stop? Ellen Dumm 2010
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His climate change misstep follows several reversals on issues and just plain loony comments on gays, women, Medicare, Social Security and taxes.
Ellen Dumm: Will the Buck Ever Stop? Ellen Dumm 2010
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His climate change misstep follows several reversals on issues and just plain loony comments on gays, women, Medicare, Social Security and taxes.
Ellen Dumm: Will the Buck Ever Stop? Ellen Dumm 2010
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His climate change misstep follows several reversals on issues and just plain loony comments on gays, women, Medicare, Social Security and taxes.
Ellen Dumm: Will the Buck Ever Stop? Ellen Dumm 2010
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I've posted several articles that quote British "nutritionists" making overblown or just plain loony claims about milk and dairy allergy.
More UK Dairy Allergy Nonsense Steve Carper 2007
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Like the man says, theres alcoholisum, suicde and violence in loony toons and these are deamed ok for kids how do you people think this is worse?
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Zach Exley is the fringe left, and has been traveling in loony left circles for years.
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I knew steph would not produce a link to back up her claim that 'However I do not regard him as 'loony' - it was more a reference to the accusation by some atheist/agnostic bloggers that *all of us biblical historians are 'loony'* and 'absurd'
Jesus and History around the Web James F. McGrath 2010
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