loonies
- plural of loony.
Example Sentences
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Everyone thinks they can do it: players, parents, students, boosters, administrators, TV yappers, dogs, cats, radio loonies, and sports columnists at financial newspapers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2025
“All those lucky loonies I was giving her paid off,” Mr. MacDonald said of Ms. Dopp accepting his proposal.
From New York Times ● Mar. 11, 2022
He thought that he could corral the loonies that he helped empower; he never considered the possibility that they might wind up coopting him.
From Slate ● Feb. 3, 2021
Her father John Barrymore, of the Barrymore acting dynasty – “The great line of loonies from which I come,” as she puts it – wasn’t around much.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 29, 2017
Well, them two loonies scratched along till, one day, Penn's church—he'd belonged to the Moravians—found out where he wuz drifted an' layin', an' wrote to Uncle Salters.
From Captains Courageous by Kipling, Rudyard
