What's the difference between funny and wacky?

Funny


Definition:

  • (superl.) Droll; comical; amusing; laughable.
  • (n.) A clinkerbuit, narrow boat for sculling.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, as the plan unravels, Professor Marcus's team turn on one another, with painfully (if painfully funny) results.
  • (2) The reality is I like football so much, I miss football, and when I have the chance to be back I will come back.” Mourinho, who was joined by his agent Jorge Mendes to speak to children at the NorthLight school as part of the Valencia chairman Peter Lim’s Olympic scholarship, added: “It’s quite a funny career.
  • (3) The name suggests it is a clever but funny channel that it's OK to like.
  • (4) He just look sideways and for some reason it’s funny.” But Clement himself names Rhys Darby, aka the Conchords’ manager, Murray, who plays a werewolf in Shadows, as the funniest man he has ever worked with – even if he does appear in “too many ads”.
  • (5) Take feedback when it's offered In common with all the other judges on Show Me The Funny, I'm not entirely comfortable with judging other comedians.
  • (6) And then her drug use got harder, and more desperate, and then it wasn't funny any more; and then, when she was trying to clean up, she was dead, gone to join "the stupid club", as Kurt Cobain's mother described all the rock stars who end up dead at 27.
  • (7) Christine Langan of BBC Films told Screen Daily: "Compelling, funny and moving, Gold is a gem of a story and BBC Films is proud to be participating in bringing it to an international audience."
  • (8) When we had a morning practice session, and some players were a bit sluggish, he would call them out to the middle of the pitch and shout: ‘Dilly-ding, dilly-dong!’ When I read this story about Leicester, I just started laughing because all those funny moments with him came rushing back into my head.” That Ranieri has a sense of humour is hardly new information.
  • (9) Afternoon Delights doesn't have anything approaching a mission statement – it's just two middle-aged men arsing about, frankly – but its gleeful anarchism can be riotously funny: witness the pair as free runners, declaring "war against the urban environment", or their magnificently coiffed Rock'n'Rollers, with the aid of subtitles, showing off their moves on the streets of Ashford, Kent.
  • (10) So like I said, it’s funny to be a woman, in a world that judges you solely by what you do with your vagina: whether any babies have come out of it, and what you are doing with it.
  • (11) And if you're really funny, then provided you're not punching people when you come off, or stealing people's belongings, then you'll get a gig.
  • (12) The first time I heard about legislation banning " homosexual propaganda ", I thought it was funny.
  • (13) But it was funny and interesting also because it really showed that, maybe, I can still bring something to a team.” This will be Drogba’s second departure from Stamford Bridge having initially left for Shanghai Shenhua in 2012 in the immediate aftermath of his winning penalty in the shoot-out against Bayern Munich which saw Chelsea claim the European Cup .
  • (14) Even so, the whole thing was knocked together for a fraction of a normal commercial and it's a pretty funny spoof of a cliché-ridden car advert.
  • (15) "It was a funny afternoon," said Pardew whose side have won seven and drawn one of their last nine Premier League games.
  • (16) In his five-star review for Time Out New York , David Cote calls it "gobsmackingly funny".
  • (17) First in line was Conservative Richard Fuller, who he believed was looking at him in a funny way.
  • (18) Funny on its own, even funnier with funny music playing beneath it .
  • (19) The Gogglebox people are all nice(ish) and funny(ish), qualities vital to keep at bay total self-loathing that we are gathered as a family, watching on telly other people watching telly.
  • (20) He is also characterised as "the devoted husband of a bestselling novelist with a few of her own ideas about how fiction works"; a funny sentence construction that carries a faint whiff of husband stoically bent over his books as wife keeps popping up with pesky theories about realism.

Wacky


Definition:

  • (n.) A soft, earthy, dark-colored rock or clay derived from the alteration of basalt.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Father, rather creepily, joined him on his gap year and the two went surfing and enjoyed the wacky backy.
  • (2) Shaw, a veteran of the Falklands and Iraq wars, also said the MoD had to be prepared to embrace unconventional and "wacky" ideas if the military wanted to catch up with, and then stay ahead of, rivals in the cybersphere.
  • (3) "They don't have any out-and-out wacky contestants – the Jedwards and the Wagners – and I think they are key to the joy of the show," he said.
  • (4) As she prepares to launch her final bid to become America’s first female president, the question posed by her best friend booms out loud: why funny and wacky to those who love her, yet to others a self-aggrandizing shrew?
  • (5) In the wacky parallel universe where this suit succeeds and sets a precedent, lots of countries could have a case for "unrealistic portrayal": Mongolia National pride offended by perhaps the worst casting decision of all time, when John Wayne played Genghis Khan in The Conqueror .
  • (6) Schmidt's visit to Burma comes after trips to Libya, Afghanistan and North Korea, which he said was a "truly wacky place".
  • (7) Like someone's first time at Ascot, unsure of how wacky to go with their hat.
  • (8) The Globes can be notoriously wacky – this time round, in a good way.
  • (9) Then somebody pointed out a "slightly wacky" advertisement for a deputy head in Essex.
  • (10) Kevin Rudd has backed a 20% company tax rate for the Northern Territory – 10 percentage points lower than the rest of the country – as part of a northern economic plan very similar to a Coalition strategy labelled "wacky" and "crazy" by Labor ministers earlier in the year.
  • (11) Sadly, these hopes may also belong in a wacky parallel universe.
  • (12) Ballmer, whose wacky "monkey dance" and enthusiasm had once shown him to be a loose, fun manager, was not the man of vision that his predecessor, Bill Gates, was.
  • (13) That's just… That's not walk-off interference call levels of wackiness but damn close.
  • (14) We’re already fighting against constitutional “personhood” status for zygotes and attempts to defund a woman’s health organization thanks to the 3% it spends performing abortions, so perhaps the anti-choice movement has reached peak wacky.
  • (15) United States of America Though Hollywood is sometimes presumed by Iranian officials to be an instrument of the US government, there's no reason, in this wacky parallel universe, why it shouldn't sue itself.
  • (16) Allen does not, you'll be glad to hear, explain how to manoeuvre a Gillette razor effortlessly around that tricky bit near your jaw line, nor is she using her position to point out that all of your wacky ties need to be rolled into a ball and thrown in a lake.
  • (17) Oh, and speaking of wacky hi-jinks, lest we forget .
  • (18) There was clear anger among Tory high command at the latest intervention by the outspoken Mid Bedfordshire MP, with one senior source describing her comments as "completely wacky".
  • (19) Harry Redknapp's team showed their spirit and, in a wacky game of contrasting halves, they missed a penalty and nearly completed an outlandish comeback against a Fulham side that finished with 10 men after the harsh dismissal of Steve Sidwell.
  • (20) • How goes the government's wacky restriction on books being sent to prisoners?

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