zany
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Even if you don’t get all these visual references, it’s easy to still laugh at the Minions’ zany antics.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
In our current everyone-with-a-phone-is-a-critic culture, this may sound like a particular flavor of zany.
From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2026
Americans are captivated by the dizzying displays of group fervor, zany behavior and national pride that accompany nearly every match at each of the 16 venues in the United States, Canada and Mexico.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2026
The very next morning, the BBC called to say they were blown away by the song's zany energy and its Euro-friendly lyrics about ditching an office job to take a mini-break in Germany.
From BBC ● May 14, 2026
And just like that, as he stared at them, the idea came, an idea as zany as they were.
From "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli
You don’t know what these zanies might do.
From New York Times ● Jan. 14, 2024
Missing were the usual cast of zanies dressed in wedding gowns and super hero costumes jostling with the beat writers to get their questions heard.
From Reuters ● Jan. 27, 2020
So it's fair to say that James Corden and his successor, Owain Arthur, in Richard Bean's barnstorming comic play One Man, Two Guvnors are zanies in the true sense of the word.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 5, 2012
McDonagh's zanies are grotesques devoid of decency or basic deductive skills.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 25, 2010
He says the genuine zanies are very simple to operate on.
From Nor Iron Bars a Cage.... by Randall Garrett
“Hoppers” features zanier cartoon comedy and less tear-inducing pathos than audiences may expect from the studio behind “Up.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 7, 2026
The last time Salon cracked wise at the offerings listed among Oprah’s Favorite Things or the zanier items in Goop’s holiday gift guide was in 2019.
From Salon ● Nov. 4, 2023
The story grows zanier and more evocative when Ry Shelley befriends a high-functioning madman named Professor Victor Stein, who’s into artificial intelligence and cryogenics.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 14, 2019
The storefront colors were zanier, the clothes tighter, the music louder.
From New York Times ● Dec. 13, 2016
While it’s zanier than other current political dramas, like “House of Cards,” it still has a serious point to make.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2016
I’d also be lying if I said that was the only reason my husband and I share our lives with two of nature’s zaniest comics instead of a herd of small humans.
From Salon ● Jul. 31, 2024
Even the zaniest comedy needs to take its premise seriously in order to work.
From New York Times ● Feb. 23, 2023
“It could win best picture and it’s the zaniest idea out there,” Lord says.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 21, 2023
Imagine you’re a kid again and given an unlimited budget to build and race the zaniest Hot Wheels track you could possibly imagine.
From The Verge ● Dec. 27, 2021
Sunday, in a 37-31 victory over the Eagles, Flores unveiled perhaps the coolest, zaniest play of the season.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 2, 2019
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