batty
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That’s when all the fun started melting away, and before long, Meghan Trainor’s PR team issued an unforgettably batty press release for her Valentine’s Day-themed EP, where the word “bop” appeared twice in the copy.
From Salon ● May 10, 2026
Kelly, from Liverpool, appeared in 48 episodes as the "batty" Noreen Maltby who was noted for her malapropisms.
From BBC ● Apr. 22, 2026
The story “After the Haiku Period,” about batty twin sisters who lay siege to a slaughterhouse, reprises the material.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025
“A Working Man” opens with a batty pastiche of bullets and buzz saws, parachutes and cranes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2025
When Simon was still silent Ralph said curtly, "You're batty."
From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding
Of all the dizzying technological boosterism in American history, from the penny press to the telegraph to the radio, no pronouncement was battier.
From New York Times ● Sep. 14, 2018
JFK ranks among the most exasperating movies of all time for portraying Jim Garrison, one of the battier Kennedy-assassination conspiracy-mongers, as a truth-telling hero.
From Slate ● Sep. 16, 2016
Here are seven battier things they believe, from trees causing global warming to fetuses in your Pepsi.
From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2015
The episode climaxes at Maura’s shiva, which is intermittently moving and then finally battier than Dracula’s lair on Halloween.
From Slate
"But she is also somewhat battier, Malone, than the entire Order Chiroptera, including Count Dracula and all his happy friends."
From Occasion for Disaster by Garrett, Randall
Those entertainingly cheesy performances matter, because viewers who stick with the story to the end will be rewarded with one of the battiest plot-twists in recent B-movie memory.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 16, 2022
His battiest complaint: She planned to open a Tennessee Williams theme park after his death.
From New York Times ● Oct. 27, 2014
It calls the day "a demonstration of Britain at its battiest - and best", and suggests the service was a touch long.
From BBC ● Apr. 30, 2011
This time, Huston has found material that was all but guaranteed to fuel the battiest recesses of his imagination.
From Time Magazine Archive
It's the battiest remark I ever heard him make.
From Wilt Thou Torchy by Ford, Sewell
