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How to pronounce loony in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms crazy, looney, nutcase, weirdo
Type of lunatic, madman, maniac
Type Words
Synonyms around the bend, balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kookie, kooky, loco, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, wacky, whacky
Derivation loon

Examples of loony

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They file everything away in loony little mechanical categories they call logic.
From the time.com
You have to laugh at the absurdities of these loony left greenies and Democrats.
From the washingtontimes.com
Dorsey's plots, such as they are, show off the madcap, the manic and the loony.
From the sacbee.com
The loony lefties will ban it in case one kid is better at it than another kid.
From the guardian.co.uk
This loony project is perhaps a fitting capstone to our national fantasy in Iraq.
From the kansas.com
Kamala is just another loony left winger who will make child molestation legal.
From the latimes.com
You usually get the odd loony, but she attracts them in their droves it seems.
From the guardian.co.uk
Some fear that, with few people bothering to vote, loony candidates will sneak in.
From the economist.com
I will admit that not all the sites I monitor are as loony as the Health Ranger's.
From the scienceblogs.com
More examples
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  • A lunatic is a commonly used term for a person who is mentally ill, dangerous, foolish, unpredictable,: a condition once called lunacy.
  • Loonies (Loenatik - De moevie) is a 2002 Dutch family film, based on a Dutch TV series Loonies (Dutch Loenatik).
  • (Loonies (GTA)) Grand Theft Auto 2 (abbreviated as GTA2) is a video game that was released worldwide on October 25, 1999, by developer DMA Design (now Rockstar North); initially for the Windows operating system and the PlayStation console. ...
  • An insane or very foolish person; insane; very silly, absurd
  • (Loonies) Canadian slang for their dollar coin, necessary for their notoriously-expensive parking meters
  • A one dollar coin in Canada, with a picture of a Loon on one side and a picture of some sort of water bird on the other side.
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