crazy

• His ideas were both frightening and crazy.
• Those words appearing to be merely the ravings of superannuation, they were not regarded; but when no other traces of Mary could be found, old Andrew went up to consult this crazy dame once more, but he was not able to...
• Of all the queer collections of humans outside of a crazy asylum, it seemed to me this sanitarium was the cup winner. […] When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your...

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• When she gets on the motorcycle she goes crazy.

• He went crazy when he won.
• The girls were crazy to be introduced to him. - 1864, R. B. Kimball, Was He Successful?:
• The craziest, most extraordinary banger race on the planet: 10,000+ miles from Prague to Siberia. - 2020 January 8, Nikhil Krishnan, “Six of the world's most thrilling road trips for 2020”, in The Daily Telegraph:

• Why is she so crazy about him?

• crazy work
• The game had a crazy ending.
• […] at all, just a vast space of desert out in the saltlands of Nevada. It's serious dressing up, the maddest entertainment, craziest art, and at the end there's the burning of a huge effigy, stuffed with pyrotechnics...

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• Buchanan shewed her into a room adjoining to Mr. Steele's dressing-room, and separated from it by a very crazy partition. - 1789, John Moore, Zeluco, Valancourt, published 2008, page 203:
• Piles of mean and crazy houses. - 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter III, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown,...
• They […] got a crazy boat to carry them to the island. - 1816, Francis Jeffrey, “Memoirs of Madame de Larochejaquelein”, in The Edinburgh Review February 1816:

• Over moist and crazy brains. - 1663, Samuel Butler, Hudibras:
• One of great riches, but a crazy constitution. - 1710 March 27 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “THURSDAY, March 17, 1709–1710”, in The Spectator, number 15; republished in Alexander...
• My poor aunt has often told me […] how long she herself was apprehensive lest my crazy frame, which is now of common shape, should remain for ever crooked and deformed. - c. 1793, Edward Gibbon, Memoirs, Penguin,...

• That trick was crazy good.
• I'm crazy tired after today's shift at work.
• I'm flat out. It's crazy stupid here, Kim. - 2002, Gina Riley, Jane Turner, That's Unusual: Scripts from Kath and Kim, Series 2, page 67:

• Now drink up, you knuckleheads! Have a blast! It's our night, you crazies! Chloe, where are you? - 2011, “Pilot”, in Allen Gregory, season 1, episode 1:

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• Then again, her whole evening was full of crazy, and she didn't know what else to do. - 2013, Douglas Schwartz, Checkered Scissors, page 211: