lunacy
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Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 satirical masterpiece “Dr. Strangelove” brilliantly parodied the lunacy of the nuclear threat during the Cold War.
From Salon • Mar. 10, 2026
Beware the three Ls: leverage, liquidity and lunacy.
From MarketWatch • Nov. 7, 2025
“Bloodline” reminds me of the breed of darkly comic postwar novels by Robert Coover, William H. Gass, Harry Crews and others, in which regional manias stand in for a broader national lunacy.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025
The company’s commedia dell’arte-style shenanigans have a natural elasticity but farcical lunacy snaps when stretched too far.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 5, 2025
Tibe stared at me for some while as if establishing lunacy.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
Vocabulary lists containing lunacy
Power Suffix: -acy
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