Sentence examples for barmy from inspiring English sources

The word 'barmy' is correct and can be used in written English.
It is an adjective that means crazy, foolish, or eccentric. Example: The new manager's barmy ideas for boosting sales were met with skepticism by the team.

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barmy

adjective

Containing barm, i.e. froth from fermented yeast

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This means that Randy Jackson will still be there, calling everyone "dog" a lot and complaining that he can't feel things, with Tyler looking likely to assume the barmy, shaggy-haired, largely incomprehensible role vacated by Paula Abdul.

Clegg said he could give a list of barmy ideas that he would have to stop if in coalition with them.

To an extent, the spirit of balmy summers and barmy fixtures past survives, even if Wigan Athletic have cancelled a friendly in Morecambe to fly to the United States to play Columbus Crew and the Pittsburgh Riverhounds.

Lib Dems are barmy, grumble Tory right-wingers.

Many cities in the emerging world have followed the barmy American practice of requiring property developers to provide a certain number of parking spaces for every building something that makes commuting by car much more attractive than it would be otherwise.

But the mayor, not to mention those 1.1m children, may well rue the time and political capital he wasted last year on barmy plans to relocate baseball stadiums and make New Yorkers polite.

House prices were as barmy as in America and Britain, rising by almost two and half times from 2000 to the peak.

But here the Pirates are improvisers, sounding slightly barmy (the state should recognise marriages of more than two people), like other leftist parties or both at once (travel on public transport should be ticketless).

Squeezing the economy harder in order to hit it is barmy.

In the current drive to emphasise growth as well as austerity it is all too easy to imagine a tax of financial transactions (steal from the rich) being adopted by euro-zone governments as a way of funding additional stimulus (give to the poor).Taxing finance is not barmy in itself.

And the central issue that divides the parties—how to solve the American government's rotten finances was the weak spot both of Mr Obama's first term (he ignored the recommendations of his own Bowles-Simpson deficit commission) and of his campaign (he simply concentrated on hammering away at Mr Romney's admittedly barmy numbers).So why might Mr Obama's victory turn into something big?

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