The phrase "a bit loony" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used informally to describe someone or something as slightly crazy or eccentric.
Example: "His ideas about time travel are a bit loony, but they make for an interesting conversation."
Alternatives: "a little crazy" or "somewhat eccentric".
"I expect it'll be a bit loony," said one judge, Mick Rock, a photographer best known for his photos of 1970s rockers like Queen and Debbie Harry.
THE immigration debate has seemed a bit loony lately, particularly since the usually tempered Lindsey Graham proposed revising the 14th amendment, which grants citizenship to those born in America.
At the start of Cornelia Read's new novel Madeline Dare is teaching at the Santangelo Academy, a "therapeutic boarding school" for troubled teenagers run by the charismatic if more than a bit loony Dr. David Santangelo.
It sounds a bit loony, I know: You just have to experience it to understand.
(and sorry if this is a bit too loony left for you, but why not for the boys too?) Is it really so difficult for parents to ask that their sons and daughters be treated the same at school?
Paunchy and bearded, he offered a bit of loony performance art as he set out to comment on the possibility of hope in the country: he tore off his clothes to reveal a Little Orphan Annie dress, then skipped and lip-synched to "Tomorrow".
But, yes, it was a bit of a zoo: drunks, drug addicts, loonies, wise persons, kind persons, humble people, massive fatheads.
"For Your Eyes Only" is the musical equivalent of channel surfing: a blast of rock, a zany snippet of Loony Tunes, a slither of something Bergian, a bit of Chopin, a wail of punk, an inane tango and so on.
Unable to explain why the actual right-wingers hated J.F.K. as much as they did, Stoll insists that a conspiracy of leftish doves who surrounded J.F.K. — Sorensen and Schlesinger, in particular — warped his words and purposes retrospectively: a conspiracy theory every bit as loony as any from the buffs.
