Example Sentences

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A living room focus group reacts zanily to news about a new peanut butter candy.

From New York Times • Feb. 11, 2024

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

There are at least two deliberately funny moments that hint at the existence of a zanily witty Airplane!-style spoof buried in this movie’s turgid depths.

From Slate • May 17, 2012