loony

comparative loonier · superlative looniest · alternative loonie · alternative luny · alternative looney

1. derogatoryinformaloffensiveInsane.

   loony scheme

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   completely loony

   They dismissed his loony ideas.

   The movie is full of loony characters.

   CNN’s Christiane Amanpour took the press corps’ Trumpphobia a loony step further last week, saying the former real estate mogul represents an “existential threat” to the media. She’s apparently fearful that they’re all going to end up “in handcuffs, in cages, in kangaroo courts, in prison … and then who knows?”

   2016 November 28, Steve Tobak, “The Media Is Overcome With Trumpphobia”, in Fox Business, New York, N.Y., archived from the original on 08 Nov 2020

2. derogatoryinformaloffensiveVery silly, absurd.

plural loonies · alternative loonie · alternative luny · alternative looney

1. derogatoryinformaloffensiveAn insane or very foolish person.

   Why, there’s hundreds of lunies of the sort to be met in London.

   1913, Marie Adelaide Belloc Lowndes, The Lodger