[ US /ˈɫunəˌtɪk/ ]
[ UK /lˈuːnətˌɪk/ ]
NOUN
  1. an insane person
  2. a reckless impetuous irresponsible person
ADJECTIVE
  1. insane and believed to be affected by the phases of the moon
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How To Use lunatic In A Sentence

  • D'ye know, that Irish lunatic absolutely ran the gauntlet of pandy fire to get back into Lucknow, and bring out Outram and Havelock in person (with the poor old Gravedigger hardly able to hobble along) just so that they could greet Sir Colin as he covered the last few furlongs? Fiancée
  • Those few women who shocked public feeling with a display of sexual desire were branded either as prostitutes, nymphomaniacs or lunatics.
  • Damn it I must seem like I'm raving like a lunatic about the red menace.
  • The official dismissed the speech as the ramblings of a desperate lunatic.
  • This is not to say that they are leading meaningful lives, but they are not necessarily lunatics, morons, or zombies.
  • Back in the 1970s, its supporters were considered kooks and lunatics.
  • I'm very grateful to find others like yourself who have overcome and continue to combat these fear ridden lunatics that try to subjugate our society to their truly malevolent goals.
  • It all comes down to ignorance though, fundamentally, if a substantial minority of the population is unable to even attempt an informed debate without resorting to pachydermal vitriol, then you will unfortunately be left with a corrupt, morally bankrupt set of lunatics. McCain's Lying Has Gone Too Far, According To ... Karl Rove!
  • (Mr. Rose's meddling with Joyce's use of the Miltonic "woful" has reverberated all the way to Beijing where translator Sylvan Nathans noticed I had called Stephen Dedalus the "woful lunatic. 'Making the Wrong Joyce': An Exchange
  • ‘It's getting you back to the good old days when you used to organize rave-ups for two or three thousand lunatics in an empty warehouse somewhere? ‘laughed Syd.’
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