lunacy 的定义
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.
lunacy 近义词
craziness, madness
更多lunacy例句
- 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.