(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.
Loony
Definition:
(a.) See Luny.
Example Sentences:
(1) His initial instinct – that the party was full of “fruitcakes, loonies and closet racists” – had much to be said for it, but did nothing to stop Ukip’s march.
(2) David Cameron described them as "a bunch of fruitcakes, loonies and closet racists".
(3) This is not the Monster Raving Loony Party; he recoils at the very suggestion.
(4) But before long, Hodge had gone into local politics, getting elected to what was then considered a “loony left” council in Islington that raised the red flag and had a bust of Lenin in the town hall.
(5) It was London, and our loony left ideas about women’s rights, racial justice and LGBT issues which were judged to have lost Labour the 1987 general election.
(6) Later in this piece, I’ll quote Jim again, and again he’ll sound nuts, but all I can say here is that when you spend 90 minutes next to someone, you can gauge their level of loony, and Jim was merely a low-grade crank – not unlike that certain uncle in any family who’s fun to be around but who holds strange views about, say, water fluoridation.
(7) If I was on my own and it was all swirling around my head, I’d have been loony.” 'There's things I said 30 years ago where I think I have must have been out of my mind' Did he ever feel out of his depth?
(8) In the St Ives ward of Cambridgeshire county council, Labour came sixth behind two Conservatives, two Liberal Democrats and Lord Toby Jug of the Official Monster Raving Loony party.
(9) In 2006, much to Ukip's fury, Cameron famously called them a party of "fruitcakes, loonies and closet racists" (weirdly, over the weekend, the Downing Street press office seemed to retract at least the third of these suggestions, only to un-retract it).
(10) So where once David Cameron called Ukip a bunch of "fruitcakes, loonies and closet racists" , now his party seeks to outbid them with weekly announcements of benefit and immigration crackdowns.
(11) Byelection in numbers Mike Kane , Labour, 13,261 John Bickley , Ukip, 4,301 Reverend Daniel Critchlow , Conservative, 3,479 Mary Di Mauro , Lib Dem, 1,176 Nigel Woodcock , Green party, 748 Eddy O'Sullivan , BNP, 708 Captain Chaplington-Smythe , Monster Raving Loony, 288 Turnout: 28%
(12) Thames river pageants have always been a mixture of the grand and the loony, and this one looks like it is going to have elements of complete lunacy.
(13) This election has its fair share of cranks, the obligatory Monster Raving Loonies, a guy campaigning to save local pubs (to give the full triumvirate of endangered pleasures, it's the Beer, Baccy and Crumpets party).
(14) I’ve experienced this with studios where they get very frightened of what you might be doing – is Michael Eisner here?” he asked, name-checking the former Disney head who Depp claims resisted his initial loony portrayal of Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean.
(15) It is easy to mock privilege-checking, with its inferences of loony leftiness and pulsating liberal guilt.
(16) Because after a wobbly start, complimenting the Russian hosts as "not that bad", precisely the type of behaviour the great British public had come not to expect from Terry who compared the 2007 winner "to an angry looking Janette Krankie" and described Bosnia-Herzegovina's entry as "the four brides of Frankenstein and a loony with a clothes line", Norton found his stride.
(17) Chemi Shalev, Haaretz Obama posed the kinds of questions that are hardly asked aloud any more in the Israeli mainstream, swamped as it is in a steady stream of jingoistic, rightwing rhetoric, associated as it has become with people who are portrayed as loony liberals and self-hating leftists.
(18) Tebbit said his party was still paying the price for David Cameron's decision to brand Ukip supporters "fruitcakes, loonies and closet racists" eight years ago.
(19) Full results of the 2014 Newark byelection Robert Jenrick (C) 17,431 (45.03%, -8.82%) Roger Helmer (Ukip) 10,028 (25.91%, +22.09%) Michael Payne (Lab) 6,842 (17.68%, -4.65%) Paul Baggaley (Ind) 1,891 (4.89%) David Kirwan (Green) 1,057 (2.73%) David Watts (LD) 1,004 (2.59%, -17.41%) Nick The Flying Brick (Loony) 168 (0.43%) Andy Hayes (Ind) 117 (0.30%) David Bishop (BP Elvis) 87 (0.22%) Dick Rodgers (Stop Banks) 64 (0.17%) Lee Woods (Pat Soc) 18 (0.05%) C maj 7,403 (19.13%) 15.46% swing C to UKIP Electorate 73,486; Turnout 38,707 (52.67%, -18.69%) Newark results in the 2010 general election Con: 27,590 Lab: 11,438 Lib Dem: 10,246 Ukip: 1,954 Con majority: 16,152 Turnout: 71.4%
(20) Full result (with vote share and change since 2010 in brackets) George Galloway (Respect) 18,341 (55.89%, +52.83%) Imran Hussain (Labour) 8,201 (24.99%, -20.36%) Jackie Whiteley (Conservative) 2,746 (8.37%, -22.78%) Jeanette Sunderland (Liberal Democrat) 1,505 (4.59%, -7.08%) Sonja McNally (UKIP) 1,085 (3.31%, +1.31%) Dawud Islam (Green) 481 (1.47%, -0.85%) Neil Craig (Democratic Nationalists) 344 (1.05%) Howling Laud Hope (Monster Raving Loony Party) 111 (0.34%) • This article was amended on 30 March 2012.