Example Sentences

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It’s not just their goony sense of humor that compels them to make silly intro videos and do funny accents.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026

They’re middle-aged with brusque local accents or wealthy but not in a worldly way; they have some kind of sales patter or nutty theory you’d normally tune out; they’re nerdy or goony or oversharers.

From New York Times • Dec. 7, 2021

Nearly everything about the sequel to 2001's Zoolander, from Stiller's goony fake voice to the specific situations and gags, is a retread of the first film, done louder and bigger.

From The Verge • Feb. 11, 2016

In 1991, the critic David Browne wrote of Brooks, “with his meat-and-potatoes image, goony grin and virtuous all-American values, he is the Kevin Costner of country.”

From The New Yorker • Nov. 13, 2014

Gabe and three of his big goony friends were playing poker at the table.

From "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan