The word 'loony' is a correct and commonly used term in written English
It is an adjective used to describe someone who is crazy or mentally unstable. Example: The loony old man down the street often wanders around talking to himself and wearing mismatched clothing.
The relatively high 35% turnout and utter humiliation of the loony contingent suggests a significant number of people did indeed engage with the issues.
South of the border, it is acquiring precisely the caricatured significance of the "loony left" in the 80s: a supposedly militant force that Miliband cannot control and would (the argument continues) control him if he depended on its votes to govern.
But just for a moment, I'm in a room with a loony.
I fish out the email Baumeister sent me, in which he accuses Mischel of "sloppiness", "ignorance" and "indulging his prejudices", before calling his dismissal of glucose as a factor "a loony assertion".
Being expensive to acquire and maintain, international patents tend to exclude the loony fringe.
He read Shelley in the lead-up to the 1981 leadership election, which he almost won on a loony programme of import controls and withdrawal from NATO.Just as Mr Benn's political career peaked when Labour was at its most romantic and chaotic, it declined as the party lurched towards cold-headed pragmatism in the 1980s and 1990s.
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.
Under a Democratic president, American businesses expect a more pro-union line, but the agency's recent militancy is shocking, reminiscent of "loony-left" posturing in Britain in the 1970s.
Amongst the biggest problems was a chronic failure to collect taxes and pay benefits—services administered not by loony-left council officials, but by a private company, ITNET.
(Mr Harshbarger, in fact, bills himself as a moderate tough on crime, though he is admittedly pretty hostile to tobacco and guns).It was not until October 8th that Mr Finneran, after three weeks of brickbats from Harshbarger loyalists, at last brought himself to endorse Mr Harshbarger as "a Harry Truman Democrat": presumably, non-loony.
Reprints Related items Now for a queer question about gay cultureJul 10th 1997Section 28, meanwhile, was a response to tabloid rants about "loony-left" councils giving money to lesbian helplines.
