lunacy
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An obvious model for the film is “Babe,” but minus the droll wit, the inspired lunacy and the filigreed plot.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026
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
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
She looked up at him and saw the familiar, faint lunacy shining in Jamie’s eyes.
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
Everyone knows why, another of the lunacies of the most lunatic sport.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 4, 2022
See also Gwyneth Paltrow, whose Goop website is always detailing madam’s various health issues, then trying to flog the fringe lunacies that presumably cause half of them.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 14, 2018
Their economic model combined the financial lunacies of Ireland and Iceland.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 22, 2010
Mr. O’Brien’s comic persona was always lighter and less intimate; he led a new breed of healthily irreverent comedians who mocked show business and its lunacies from the margins.
From New York Times ● Jun. 2, 2010
I have nussed a many lunacies, Betsy, and in a general way am dispoged to humour them rather than set them right up agin the fire when fractious.
From Old Friends, Epistolary Parody by Andrew Lang
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Power Suffix: -acy
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