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Meanings of lunacy in inglés
Sinónimos
Examples for "folly"
Examples for "folly"
1
Brownie's never mentioned a particular fondness for such folly in the past.
2
It was folly to hope he would tell us anything worth hearing.
3
But as soon as the Yeti came out, my folly was clear.
4
Now he's discussing the folly he wants built, can you credit it?'
5
There is nobleness in thee; but there is some degree of folly.
1
Each year the school council allows me a very special personal indulgence.
2
Thanks to the indulgence of the British government, the initiative was successful.
3
The actions of these ants looked like simple indulgence in idle amusement.
4
The indulgence of negative thoughts in the morning may become a habit.
5
Another clause granted similar indulgence to the members of the two universities.
1
But your craziness might come from the not-speaking in the first place.
2
Carlizzi, for all her craziness, seemed to have excellent sources of information.
3
There would be no relief, no laughter; only craziness, despair and confusion.
4
She didn't want the craziness of what they'd shared in the past.
5
But Tom had listened to enough craziness from within and from without.
1
This foolery may do while you possess the power to maintain it.
2
But I don't see him having time for that kind of foolery.
3
I'm sorry our department has to be mixed in with his foolery.
4
Take it away, and let me hear no more of such foolery.
5
And of course he laughed good-naturedly at what he called my foolery.
1
It remains an imperfect process, open to abuse and hacks and tomfoolery.
2
It's the run-of-the-mill tomfoolery that goes on in your typical boys' school.
3
He liked Laurent on account of his tomfoolery, which made him laugh.
4
You are getting too old for this sort of tomfoolery, you know.
5
Do you think such tomfoolery has any effect in this civilized country?
Usage of lunacy in inglés
1
Who in their right minds would voluntarily subject themselves to this lunacy?
2
But to actually go ahead and do it is, well, utter lunacy.
3
The mere thinker often ends by hovering on the confines of lunacy.
4
She had her vision of Sir Lukin in his fit of lunacy.
5
He had never definitely aimed at becoming a famous specialist in lunacy.
6
We are living in a golden age for both genius and lunacy.
7
Thus the conviction of religion's inherent lunacy in which I was cradled.
8
Suddenly I had a feeling that the whole affair was stark lunacy.
9
In his lunacy he declared he hated Mary and loved Miss Edwards.
10
There will be no disturbance of the brain, no propensity towards lunacy.
11
It was lunacy, stark lunacy, and contagious on top of it all.
12
From the first he had been right, though with a magnificent lunacy.
13
Dr. Munro since the trial has made -,in affidavit of his lunacy.
14
To outsiders, these pieces of doomsday pop culture seem like far-fetched lunacy.
15
Not like the congestion and fist-waving lunacy of the Jerusalem-Tel Aviv highway.
16
And everywhere, filling the world like lunacy, that whining, whingeing, cringing buzz.
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Lunacy through the time
Lunacy across language varieties
Ireland
Common
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common