(a.) Characterized by weakness or feebleness; decrepit; broken; falling to decay; shaky; unsafe.
(a.) Broken, weakened, or dissordered in intellect; shattered; demented; deranged.
(a.) Inordinately desirous; foolishly eager.
Example Sentences:
(1) The difference in Brazil will be the huge distances involved, with the crazy decision not to host the group stages in geographical clusters leading to logistical and planning nightmares.
(2) He argues that whenever you have periods of crazy expansion of virtual credit, like today, you either have to have a safety valve of forgiveness, like in Mesopotamia where you wiped the tablets clean every seven years, or you have an outbreak of social violence so intense you rip society apart.
(3) I saw my dad sitting in the audience, looking at me like, “Yes, he really is crazy.” Having listened to thousands of people, I realised we had a narrow view of what the environment is.
(4) Updated at 8.17pm GMT 8.14pm GMT Yet another crazy statistic Seems like we’ve had a few of these today.
(5) Then their daughter comes in, or their wife, or their girlfriend, and they've just been to Pilates, and the next day they start looking up Pilates porn, or something crazy like that, and they feel even worse.
(6) The Hull City manager, Steve Bruce , has admitted his side need to pull off a couple of “crazy results” if they are to preserve their Premier League status in a frantic end-of-season run-in.
(7) Families picnic between games of crazy golf or volleyball, bathers brave the shallows, children splash in the saltwater lido.
(8) As soon as I called them and was like, 'Hey guys, it's OK, I'm not smoking meth or anything,' it was OK." He adds, frowning: "I don't really know why it happened… My girlfriend told me everyone had been saying, [he puts on a sulky voice] 'Man, Mac's shows aren't crazy any more.'
(9) "I remember ... crying and thinking, 'I'm just gonna go crazy on him one day.'"
(10) This may sound crazy, but with each passing day, Major League Soccer, which shares part of sporting calendar with the baseball season, becomes more and more of a long term threat to MLB, never mind what happens when the NFL kicks off in September.
(11) If you can't get your child into there … It's crazy.
(12) Her mother said she had made her “so proud” and her “gorgeous crazy” partner had made her world “a happy place”.
(13) "I knew that police officers had been hurt and things were on fire and it had all got crazy," the constable said.
(14) You see Nadal play a tennis match,” Godín explains, “and it drives you crazy because he always does the same thing and the guy is No1.
(15) In his book Fight the Power , Chuck rails against everything from Hollywood to the sports industry for portraying blacks as 'watermelon stealin', chicken eatin', knee knockin', eye poppin' lazy, crazy, dancin', submissive, Toms.
(16) After a stroke (left hemisphere), which mainly produced serious aphasia, I (the patient) felt crazy two or three times when someone said something I expected him to say.
(17) But at the same time we were supporting the industry and talking it up, which it deserves, some of our competitors were talking it down in their own products … that’s just crazy and a lack of leadership that frankly is irresponsible and it’s got to stop.” In a rare public appearance to mark the Australian newspaper’s 50th anniversary, Mitchell said the broadsheet newspaper was worth $50m in “cover price revenue” alone and it was too soon to walk away from print.
(18) "Like" is a preposition, said the accusers, and may take only a noun phrase object, as in "crazy like a fox" or "like a bat out of hell".
(19) And rare to see scripted too – normally women are only allowed to look dangerous if they’re playing a crazy person.
(20) She could actually be crazy,” and implying that she had been unfaithful for her husband.
Decrepit
Definition:
(a.) Broken down with age; wasted and enfeebled by the infirmities of old age; feeble; worn out.
Example Sentences:
(1) In 1972, he launched a more ambitious plan by buying Hintlesham Hall, a decrepit grade-11 listed building in Suffolk, converting it into a home and three restaurants and taking over the Hintlesham festival held there.
(2) Some of Rio's most impressive architecture can still be found in and around Praça XV, but it has been throttled by modernity, its colonial charm obliterated by a concrete flyover, now black and decrepit, built directly over the top of it.
(3) Caine’s Guardian reader may be decrepit and disillusioned but still oozes wit and discerning taste.
(4) I really want to say thank you for the kind way my decrepit body was washed; how, in the middle of the night when I felt overwhelmed, a nurse stopped what she was doing and held my hand; the cake covered in Smarties the catering staff brought me for my birthday; the smiles and jokes with the staff to pass the long days; and Mr Burbos (one of the handsome consultant surgeons) who has been so generous with his time and care.
(5) One disingenuous objection to fairer taxing of property pleads for cash-poor, asset-rich old folk rattling around in drafty, decrepit mansions.
(6) This is not because it’s a decrepit, leaking ship, as often depicted, but because every modern healthcare system in the world will always need more money, more research and more beds, to give patients the best chance of treatment.
(7) The latest WHO figures underscore Ebola’s asymmetric spread, as it travels through densely populated communities with decrepit health facilities and poor public awareness campaigns.
(8) The Walworth Farce, which opens at the National Theatre next week, focuses on a tyrannical Irishman who has kept his two sons locked in a decrepit flat since the trio arrived in London almost two decades before.
(9) Another avenue is supporting the decrepit political opposition group that exists.
(10) Particularly striking is the fact that Britain will end up spending less as a proportion of its national income than even the US, the international byword for a decrepit public sector.
(11) They have already been biting the community – one of my children's school is a decrepit building, which was built in the 70s, a mass of concrete with rotten windows and broken doors.
(12) This did not happen overnight, and the sorry conduct of the referendum campaign was only the latest indication of the decrepit state of our politics: dominated by shameless appeals to fear, as though hope were a currency barely worth trading in, the British public had no such thing as a better nature, and a brighter future held no appeal.
(13) This fact, which confirms the decrepitation theorem, could explain the explosion inside the tissues observed in surgical application of the Nd:YAG laser.
(14) But the worst are shikumen s, no matter how historically significant or beautiful, that have become so decrepit and grimy from decades of overcrowding, heavy communal usage and minimal infrastructural investment by residents and local authorities.
(15) Many were in decrepit tower-blocks, sky high and matchstick small.
(16) I have known the squalid, damp bedrooms of the decrepit council house; the wait for the child benefit to buy the next meal; the reality of a bag of chips being a cheaper and more comforting alternative to a nutritious meal; the constant linkage of school to failure throughout our family generations; and the inevitable lure of cigarettes and alcohol to ease the pain.
(17) In tears and confusion, thousands of women, children and old men expelled from Srebrenica poured off buses yesterday at the decrepit air base in the town of Tuzla, northern Bosnia, accusing Serb rebels of murder and rape and the United Nations of indifference during the fall of the enclave.
(18) Earlier this month, more than 600 million people lost power when the country's decrepit electricity grid collapsed .
(19) The debt crisis that erupted in 2009 exposed the decrepit state of the country's structures.
(20) She looked forward to a life beyond the decrepit confines of the capital.