On this page you'll find 10+ example sentences with Loony. Discover the meaning, synonyms such as balmy or kookie and how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Loony in a sentence
Loony meaning
- Insane.
- Very silly, absurd.
Synonyms of Loony
Using Loony
- The main meaning on this page is: Insane. | Very silly, absurd.
- Useful related words include: balmy, kookie, kooky, haywire.
- In the example corpus, loony often appears in combinations such as: raving loony, the loony, loony party.
Context around Loony
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 9 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 16 statements, 2 questions, 2 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Loony
- In this selection, "loony" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, raving, fanbases, whatever, party, enough and tune stand out and add context to how "loony" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a hilarious loony intensity to and a little loony and getting. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "loony" sits close to words such as abdelaziz, absolutist and accrual, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with loony
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Quite a loony selection for a group of drunken reprobates. (10 words)
A cross between Spot The Loony and How not to be seen. (12 words)
What did I give her to say that is so whacky and loony tunes? (14 words)
Standing next to Phin ‘Barmy Brunch’ Adams of the Monster Raving Loony Party who was wearing a baked bean balaclava, many mocked that the former Tory minister’s political career had come to a fitting end. (36 words)
His tenure is day-to-day as liar-in-chief, assuming America operates under the rule of law, and not the loony lobby of the National Rifle Association and the putrefaction of partisan politics. (34 words)
He was correct on both counts, but that never stopped him from sounding a little loony and getting into constant fights with Jack Shepherd, who was a firm believer in science and logic. (33 words)
What did I give her to say that is so whacky and loony tunes? (14 words)
How else can one explain the Conservative leader’s loony ideas about energy policy? (14 words)
The organiser of the community Loony Dook was delighted when 600 brave souls decided to jump into the Forth on New Year’s Day! (24 words)
I've heard tell that Sir Gerald Nabarro had a pet prawn called Simon - you wouldn't call him a loony! (21 words)
Example sentences (20)
The only body calling for votes at 18 in the 1960s was the Monster Raving Loony Party.
There are only so many fanbases loony enough to travel to certifiably crap destinations for meaningless exhibitions, and even then, better hope departures and holdouts don’t further deter travel and viewership.
Thus they dance to whatever loony tune the Greens start whistling next, with their student union empty-gesture politics, their tedious identitarian sloganising, and their fantasy economics.
Trey Plutnicki, in particular, brings a hilarious, loony intensity to his performance as the earnest but very deluded wannabe screenwriter.
While the idea of secession “has been consigned to the political loony bin since the Civil War,” the idea is increasingly respectable, Buckley asserts.
As loony as they may be, however, one of the biggest and most vexing problems with these kinds of false conspiracy theories is that they are, almost by definition, difficult to debunk.
Candidate for the Official Monster Raving Loony Party, Ravin Rodent Subortna has made a raft of unusual promises on the campaign trail, as has become tradition for the party.
Standing next to Phin ‘Barmy Brunch’ Adams of the Monster Raving Loony Party who was wearing a baked bean balaclava, many mocked that the former Tory minister’s political career had come to a fitting end.
The organiser of the community Loony Dook was delighted when 600 brave souls decided to jump into the Forth on New Year’s Day!
What did I give her to say that is so whacky and loony tunes?
He was correct on both counts, but that never stopped him from sounding a little loony and getting into constant fights with Jack Shepherd, who was a firm believer in science and logic.
Quite a loony selection for a group of drunken reprobates.
Sought-after rural locations in Britain are being targeted by Boris Johnson and his loony sidekick, who have launched an ‘algorithm’ to encourage a splurge of housebuilding.
How else can one explain the Conservative leader’s loony ideas about energy policy?
Yet in a meeting of parliament’s defence select committee earlier this month, Jones branded reports of civilian deaths by “NGOs and loony left wing organisations” as “dishonest”.
A cross between Spot The Loony and How not to be seen.
His tenure is day-to-day as liar-in-chief, assuming America operates under the rule of law, and not the loony lobby of the National Rifle Association and the putrefaction of partisan politics.
I hope your new foundation reclaims "America First" from the head bull-goose loony.
I've heard tell that Sir Gerald Nabarro had a pet prawn called Simon - you wouldn't call him a loony!
Trump house servant David “Sandy” Clarke is a loony bully and a very sick joke who is desperately trying to be noticed.
Common combinations with loony
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: