loony
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Still, the loony nature of the entire concept is such that you can imagine a fan base forming, like mold in a flooded basement.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
However, because of the Globes’ loony category smash-up in the supporting performance categories, Cooper’s triumph came at the expense of “The White Lotus” star Walton Goggins and Tramell Tillman’s Emmy-winning work on “Severance.”
From Salon ● Jan. 12, 2026
And I don’t think his successor will match those heights, even if he or she isn’t quite as loony as we’re speculating.
From Slate ● Mar. 2, 2024
This tension helps hold together the disparate parts, and “Deepe Darknesse” develops its own loony logic.
From New York Times ● Jan. 14, 2024
I ask her more questions and she’s not staring at me like I’m loony, only answering the way she might with any adult.
From "The House That Lou Built" by Mae Respicio
Everyone thinks they can do it: players, parents, students, boosters, administrators, TV yappers, dogs, cats, radio loonies, and sports columnists at financial newspapers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2025
Being from Canada, God’s own country, I feel bad for Americans because leaving loonies and toonies under pillows is so much easier than carefully wadding up paper money.
From Slate ● Apr. 13, 2018
Think how many loonies that would fetch now.
From The Guardian ● May 19, 2017
It’s not so much about separating the loonies from the slightly manic.
From New York Times ● Sep. 18, 2010
Kurt dug out a handful of coins and picked out enough loonies and toonies to make ten dollars, and handed it over.
From Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town by Cory Doctorow
It’s possible it’d be even loonier than what we have now.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 7, 2023
What we knew was already so nuts that it's hard to believe it could be any loonier --- but it is.
From Salon ● Feb. 2, 2022
And a delightful closing-credits sequence full of Badu outtakes gives us a glimpse of the looser, loonier comedy we could’ve more fully enjoyed if the film weren’t so committed to its dousing-the-spitfire formula.
From Slate ● Feb. 7, 2019
Yes, in its loonier moments this movie is exactly that awesome, although I can't decide whether it's setting out to be the "Showgirls" of medieval-fairy tale movies or simply getting there by accident.
From Salon ● Mar. 10, 2011
Three quick thoughts emerged: it's a bit early in the day for that, he's loonier than a luger, and we'll not see skeleton in the Olympics anytime soon.
From Time Magazine Archive
Few if any of even Kim Jong-un’s looniest tirades match these posts for their wild-eyed savagery.
From Slate ● Apr. 6, 2026
She added that "one of the looniest proposals on the table is that you can actually cut down forests to turn into furniture" - with companies claiming they store carbon.
From BBC ● Dec. 8, 2022
“The looniest guys you’ll talk to in wrestling are really about winning, and all else doesn’t matter.”
From Washington Post ● Apr. 9, 2016
And in perhaps his looniest promise, he can have Noah living at Yaddo by the end of the week — for as long as he wants!
From New York Times ● Dec. 13, 2015
“We had to pick the looniest of the bunch, didn’t we?”
From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova
