What's the difference between cockamamie and zany?
Cockamamie
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The apotheosis of the cockamamie logic surrounding the sale, is the idea that some of the City institutions set to make a killing may own our pensions.
(2) Most of the jokes about Trump’s cockamamie policies tried to dismiss them with a chuckle.
(3) They're so clearly under the influence of the fossil fuel industry that they're coming up with cockamamie solutions which aren't solutions.
(4) The waters are further muddied by this process, masquerading as balance, of giving time and a soapbox to every cockamamie statement any self-serving politician cares to make, then labelling the sum of these parts "the truth about immigration".
(5) I don’t share his politics on many things, but he was elected on that cockamamie system that they’ve got.
Zany
Definition:
(n.) A merry-andrew; a buffoon.
(v. t.) To mimic.
Example Sentences:
(1) There’s a plausible view , however, that these extreme positions are not so much sincere commitments as zany weather balloons, floated to see how well they play with the public, as well as to bamboozle his Republican opponents.
(2) There are, he said, “quite a lot of letters and they say some things that are quite zany”.
(3) But nobody ought really to have been surprised because this, after all, is Van Gaal; the king of zaniness and over-the-top outpourings, not to mention latent hostility towards the media.
(4) One of Williams’ final films will be Absolutely Anything, a zany sci-fi comedy starring the Monty Python team alongside Simon Pegg, with Williams voicing a dog.
(5) They are a strange team right now, an end-of-era affair, with a zany, depleted defence and genuine craft and edge elsewhere.
(6) His zany guitar bodies are created using computer-aided design (CAD) software , output in one piece on an EOS 3D printer.
(7) The tone of the game is quite different to previous installments in that a good deal of the zany humour has been drained completely.
(8) On a ITV sofa show this week Corbyn was lured into discussing what he calls his “zany” interest in drains.
(9) The Qatari Armed Forces Investment Portfolio's representative, General Zani al Kuwari, who is also assistant chief of staff for financial affairs, said: "Our objective is to invest in the most important cities, and Barcelona is one of them.
(10) But Texas senator Ted Cruz and Jeb Bush , usually considered a moderate among the zany Republican field, took it a step further: they urged that only Syrian Christians be allowed to come to America as refugees.
(11) Culture A bunch of Mayan villagers are hanging out in the jungle, improbably hunting big game with a zany Indiana Jones-style contraption that looks like a giant sideways meat tenderiser.
(12) For a serious discussion of a subject like this to be granted so much time on British television, where the bulk of wine talk has to be aggressively crammed around the fringes of weekend morning food shows – and even then only so long as the wine expert agrees to spend most of their time on air pulling funny faces and making endless zany ‘zoinks-a-lummy’ proclamations – is extraordinary.
(13) Their humour is zany, beguiling and incongruous: the cast includes a chatty moon, a talking ape and a tiny shaman called Naboo played by Fielding's brother.
(14) Shortly afterwards, citing Rock as a precedent, a Texas Court of Appeals admitted the hypnotically elicited testimony of an eyewitness in Zani v. State (1988), on the grounds that it would be unfair to admit the hypnotically elicited testimony of defendants, and proscribe it for victims and witnesses.
(15) Photograph: Niko Kitsakis I'd been looking forward to browsing the shelves for zany gadgets, but the reality was slightly disappointing.
(16) That zany guy who constantly spouts hilarious zingers on Twitter ?
(17) At a time of crisis it is not about one’s “zany” love of drains, of which more later.
(18) Particularly having wasted a lot of time dealing with a lot of zany, ideological gimmicks from Michael Gove and his team, it would be a good thing if the Liberal Democrats were able to run education policy on our own terms,” he said.
(19) This was a departure from his usual zany-bonkers output, presumably causing millions of listeners to start rifling through the medicine cabinet and cueing up the scene featuring Basil Fawlty thrashing his car with a branch for themselves.
(20) Instead, somehow or other, he has come into possession of a preternaturally phantasmagoric suit of armour, complete with zany high-tech accoutrements; or a hammer that can call down lightning from the heavens; or extendable fingernails; or laser eyesight; or implausible (and non-steroid-related) abs; or the ability to change shape.