moony
adjective
dreamy, listless, or silly.
mooniness
-
a word derived from
moony.
Example Sentences
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All of them improbably and delightfully blended the manners of the cavalier, the morality of the populist and, in those rare moments when they paused for reflection, the mooniness of adolescence.
From Time Magazine Archive
Apollo 13 has a trace of this mooniness, the mystical nostalgia that seized most of the astronauts who got there and back.
From Time Magazine Archive
Run the roll: Maeterlinck and his languishing supernaturalism, Tagore and his Asiatic wind music, Selma Lagerlöf and her old maid's mooniness, Bernstein, Molnar and company and their out-worn tricks—but I pile up no more names.
From A Book of Prefaces by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken
