barmy

Example Sentences

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How barmy is it to fly thousands of people half-way around the world to sit in giant air-conditioned tents to argue about commas, and interpretations of convoluted words?

From BBC

A seafront palm tree sculpture has been given the go-ahead despite opposition to the "barmy" idea.

From BBC

“I haven’t had an agent for a while and I want to get back into the swing of things. I had a very happy time until I went slightly barmy,” he says.

From The Guardian

He was a bit of a stiff, with a barmy, overbearing family of his own.

From New York Times

In the Independent, the poet Lachlan MacKinnon declared the book to be “egregious twaddle. The poet laureate has written a barmy book in which his project of making Shakespeare a writer of mythic significance fails.”

From The Guardian