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lunacy

/loo-nuh-see/US // ˈlu nə si //UK // (ˈluːnəsɪ) //

疯子,痴呆症,癫痫,疯癫

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural lu·na·cies.

    • : insanity; mental disorder.
    • : intermittent insanity, formerly believed to be related to phases of the moon.
    • : extreme foolishness or an instance of it: Her decision to resign was sheer lunacy.
    • : unsoundness of mind sufficient to incapacitate one for civil transactions: a former legal term.

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Examples

  • This effort to prevent the IRS from cracking down on wealthy tax cheats is being sold in language that echoes the lurid lunacy of the Obama years.

  • Today the island is called Roosevelt Island, and there are no more lunatics, though there is some degree of lunacy, especially in the waning days of the pandemic.

  • I was never sure whether this was phlegm or the onset of lunacy.

  • Every one of those theories seems like the kind of googly-eyed lunacy only the fringiest fringe-dwellers would believe.

  • When that woman is Kate Middleton, debate turns into utter lunacy.

  • Here are 24 short stories, each quintessentially quirky and, some would think, touched by lunacy.

  • Sometimes, especially during the Faith years, I felt close to lunacy.

  • Francis le Moine, an excellent French painter, ran himself through with a sword in a fit of lunacy.

  • I have been collecting some most valuable information on (looking round at them) lunacy in the—er—county of Devonshire.

  • But he is quite a Michelet; the general views, and such a piece of character painting, excellent; but his method sheer lunacy.

  • Our whole scheme of things indeed is so mixed, that the wonder only is we are not all in a state of chronic lunacy.

  • Lunacy had always been, and remained, a ground of exception from the prohibition to grant outdoor relief.