The word 'lunatic' is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone who is behaving in an uncontrolled or irrational manner, usually due to mental illness. For example, "The lunatic escaped from the psychiatric ward, causing complete chaos on the streets."
Five years later, she built a houseboat on Hickling Broad, Norfolk, where locals "looked on me as a harmless lunatic," she recalled.
There are far fewer simplistic, unhelpful and misleading depictions of stereotypes of mental illness, such as the "violent lunatic" or "mad genius", it adds.
He certainly does not come across as a lunatic now, and he's not crazy, but some of the intensity remains: there is a quiet conviction in the way he talks, a determination, and a continuity that can be traced between those methods then and the ideas he shares with his manager now, a relentlessness that defines the way that Valencia play, even as shapes and styles shift throughout the season.
I'm worried that, now the right has hit this lunatic pitch of deranged – yet fully justified – hysteria, it has to sustain it for another nine and a half days.
"I probably came across as a crazy young lunatic [back then]," Cathro told Rory Smith in the Times in January 2014.
Langan told the Guardian that "working in the independent sector, you're in the lunatic gang anyway, hoping for some magic – a really unusual story or a really knockout performance – so of course awards are important".
No way, he's a total lunatic.
The first claim is partly right, the second is true only of a lunatic fringe.
She witnesses the internal anguish of her two patients worked itself out in the lunatic setting of the occupied city.
Obviously, none of these firms is in the lunatic fringe, so it is not the case that some applications should be ignored.
For a group of researchers at the University of Bristol have shown that it can regulate how quickly someone drinks.In this section Backward ran sentences… More or less A lunatic idea?
