batty
adjective
insane; crazy; eccentric.
battiness
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a word derived from
batty.
Example Sentences
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Costanzo was a superb, well, straight man to Bond’s battiness, and their voices — one slender and pure, the other husky and vibrato-heavy — improbably blended.
From New York Times ● Jan. 28, 2022
Without spoiling too much, at one point you’ll be given the choice to click on a very familiar logo, which sends the whole film down a wormhole of genuine, incredible, self-referential battiness.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 28, 2018
Nothing in Wilde’s prior output hinted at such ebullience or the sustained addictive battiness of his aristocrat caricatures.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 31, 2018
I guess Johnson knew that, for all their battiness, even the Libertarians want some standing in the process.
From Slate ● May 31, 2016
My life unrolled before me, a life distanced and remote from the world around me, a life trapped in my own deepening battiness.
From Home Again, Home Again by Cory Doctorow
