What's the difference between crazy and nutty?

Crazy


Definition:

  • (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.

Nutty


Definition:

  • (a.) Abounding in nuts.
  • (a.) Having a flavor like that of nuts; as, nutty wine.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Increase the heat under the syrup and cook, without stirring, until it turns a rich, nutty brown.
  • (2) Despite its rich, earthy, nutty flavour, the taste is very delicate, and thus pairs really well with a sharp citrus reduction.
  • (3) Lee Thompson, on sax, had the concept of The Nutty Boys.
  • (4) His colleagues tease him, telling him they're for thinktanks, not politicians, and that "people will think you're a sort of nutty professor".
  • (5) The texture of a good baguette should be moist, very slightly chewy and with a hint of a nutty flavour.
  • (6) Worse was the nutty suggestion that the press call Fox News’s rabidly rightwing host, Sean Hannity, a Trump supporter, for confirmation.
  • (7) The dish tasted fine – the mealworms had a slightly nutty, toasted flavour and gave the quiche an extra crunch – but it still made my stomach turn.
  • (8) About Chile: Having finished second in South American qualifying under the stewardship of the pigstick nutty Marcelo Bielso, Chile favour a 3-3-1-3 formation, with one of two playmakers (usually Matias Fernandez) positioned behind three strikers ( un enganche y tres punta ) on an all-out attacking side.
  • (9) 8.06pm BST Christine is making a nutty, locally sourced loaf to go with a locally sourced cheese.
  • (10) Amaranth stuffed mushrooms with za’atar and pine nuts Facebook Twitter Pinterest Yotam Ottolenghi’s amaranth stuffed mushrooms: the za’atar in the nutty topping brings a tart note to proceedings.
  • (11) ‘Oh my God, look at Lee now, isn’t she hysterical, she’s so nutty.
  • (12) "It forced a break and sent you a bit nutty for a year."
  • (13) Rahim, the son of Algerian-born parents, grew up in the eastern town of Belfort, famous for the nutty Comté cheese.
  • (14) Similarly, the Daily Mail splashed with "Murder police quiz 'nutty professor' with a blue rinse" and the Daily Mirror told its 1.2 million readers: "Jo suspect is Peeping Tom".
  • (15) Haldane replies that: "One man's nuttiness is another man's animal spirits."
  • (16) In this absolutely nutty system, in which tax can only be explained as a punishment for failing to get rich enough to avoid it, insult is heaped upon injury as judges then characterise the “UK taxpayer” as a special class of person, all themselves in full-time, well-paid employment.
  • (17) When two young women, hardly able to speak for coy giggles, approach our table for autographs and a photo, my reflex is to wonder whether some nutty rule about image rights will get in the way; Joey just puts down his fish-finger sandwich, smiles sweetly and asks: "Is it Jemma with a J?"
  • (18) But despite it all, the match that directly followed Maradona’s downfall was a stone-cold World Cup classic: Romania versus Argentina, a nutty end-to-end speed-rush of top-drawer footballing brilliance.
  • (19) Even Ford would have struggled to make such a line trip off the tongue, and it’s around this time that one is reminded Rogue One has been penned by the screenwriters of After Earth and Nutty Professor 2: The Klumps.
  • (20) The Egremont russet [with its characteristic matt brown skin] has a quirky nutty flavour and is great with cheese, but young consumers wouldn’t pick them up.

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