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Discover LudwigThe word "zany" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe someone or something that is ludicrously or inappropriately comical or lighthearted. For example, "Her zany style of humor kept everyone in stitches."
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zany
adjective
Unusual and bizarre in a funny, comical way; outlandish; clownish.
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I'd been looking forward to browsing the shelves for zany gadgets, but the reality was slightly disappointing.
Away from that zany pair, despite Diego Costa declaring that contrary to recent rumours he rather likes life in London and doesn't want to take a trip on Do One Airlines, Chelsea are going to make a £30m offer for long-time Arsenal target Gonzalo Higuaín, perhaps just for yucks or to annoy their North London counterparts.
This is movie mogul madness at its zany best because it will be recalled that Ecclestone has spent a good deal of energy wrestling grand prix away from northern Europe (where water sprays randomly on the circuit via a process known to scientists as "rain") and staging them instead in the Middle East (where it doesn't).
All I could think of was that I'd rather have French kids jeering and madames tutting at my zany outfits on the Métro than wear what I was wearing.
Choose somewhere obviously run by a character (zany decor or a humorous website with personal details about the owners are giveaways) and ring ahead to gauge whether they might supply a social element.
In Hated, a documentary about his former employer, GG Allin's drummer, Donald Dino Sexx" Sachs, suggests Allin's scatological, sadomasochistic performances had some satirical purpose, or were a form of social commentary; that Allin intended to compare his own zany plop antics with "a society that's going crazy with violence".
There's zany grandma Kris.
The mere existence of this zany proposal is an acknowledgement that the usual propensity of governments is to weaken civil society rather than to strengthen it.
Young people looking for a place to express themselves, to flaunt and paint their bodies and try anything that promises to be zany and cool still have a place to go only now it is called Burning Man, a festival in the Nevada desert.
BY THE zany sartorial standards that prevail on the Santa Monica boardwalk, a man wearing a cardboard box daubed with the words "Big Hotel" barely merits a second glance.
The soldiers entertained us with zany manoeuvres in their ancient tanks.On our way back the conversation progressed from Britain, to Chelsea football club, to its owner Roman Abramovich, and thence to the uses and foibles of Jews in general.
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