lunacy
Example Sentences
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“We don’t have anything like this in Vegas,” mused plus-size model and performer Alexandra Villalba, aka Lex Lunacy, who’d driven in from Sin City to make her Thick Strip debut.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 29, 2023
Many of its suggestions for the humane treatment and legal protection of the mentally ill were finally incorporated in the 1845 Lunacy Act.
From Nature • Apr. 4, 2017
But the lawyers declared, incorrectly, that the Lunacy Act did not cover mental disability.
From The Guardian • Nov. 9, 2012
Lunacy, a long-term resident of the capital, also attended the Civil Aeronautics Board.
From Time Magazine Archive
“With the breakdown of the Medieval system, the gods of Chaos, Lunacy, and Bad Taste gained ascendancy.”
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
Vocabulary lists containing lunacy
Power Suffix: -acy
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And Then There Were None
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The Odyssey
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