zany
adjective
ludicrously or whimsically comical; clownish.
zanily
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a word derived from
zany.
Example Sentences
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I started watching almost as a joke—I mean, come on with that title—but found myself transported by a group of artists of various temperaments and imaginations nobly and, sure, sometimes zanily, doing their best.
From Slate ● Dec. 4, 2019
“Villains” zigzags between tones, zanily bouncing between comedy and horror-esque thrills, but it fails to deliver any satisfaction through either genre.
From New York Times ● Sep. 19, 2019
John Barth, awarded for “Chimera”—a trilogy of novellas that zanily recast ancient narratives—was the leading exponent of postmodern fiction.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 11, 2019
The production, wrote Holly Williams in The Independent, "pitches its audience into a zanily macabre funfair, the traverse stage littered with clapped-out bumper cars and a giant clown's head".
From BBC ● Dec. 2, 2014
It uses Chapman's own audiobook narration of his zanily unreliable A Liar's Autobiography, Vol VI, first published in 1980, and melds it with many different kinds of animation.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 7, 2013
