lunacy / ˈlu nə si /

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lunacy 的定义

n. 名词 noun

plural lu·na·cies.

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

lunacy 近义词

n. 名词 noun

craziness, madness

更多lunacy例句

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. I was never sure whether this was phlegm or the onset of lunacy.
  4. Every one of those theories seems like the kind of googly-eyed lunacy only the fringiest fringe-dwellers would believe.
  5. When that woman is Kate Middleton, debate turns into utter lunacy.
  6. Here are 24 short stories, each quintessentially quirky and, some would think, touched by lunacy.
  7. Sometimes, especially during the Faith years, I felt close to lunacy.
  8. Francis le Moine, an excellent French painter, ran himself through with a sword in a fit of lunacy.
  9. I have been collecting some most valuable information on (looking round at them) lunacy in the—er—county of Devonshire.
  10. But he is quite a Michelet; the general views, and such a piece of character painting, excellent; but his method sheer lunacy.
  11. Our whole scheme of things indeed is so mixed, that the wonder only is we are not all in a state of chronic lunacy.
  12. Lunacy had always been, and remained, a ground of exception from the prohibition to grant outdoor relief.