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• n  a buffoon in one of the old comedies; imitates others for ludicrous effect
• n  a man who is a stupid incompetent fool
• s  ludicrous, foolish
• s  like a clown
  a zany sense of humor

• They're geared to the Japanese gaming sensibility, which has a zany, cartoonish, game-show bent.
• In all Europe there is no street quite so lively, quite so cosmopolitan or quite so zany as Rome's Via Venetothe broad, tree lined avenue known to Italy's American colony as .
• A zany new musical based on the life of Joseph Stalin.

• fathead
• goof
• goofball
• bozo
• jackass
• goose
• cuckoo
• twat
• cockamamie
• cockamamy
• goofy
• sappy
• silly
• wacky
• whacky
• buffoonish
• clownish
• clownlike

News & Articles

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• Washington Examiner Ends Eight-Year Run of Great Local Reporting and Ridiculous Front Pages
  Drug-dealing pandas, popes fighting the war on cars, aurora borealis in the culture wars: A farewell to the free tabloid and its zany covers. [ more › ]
  June 14, 2013 - DCist
• Musical comedy ‘Nunsense' opens in High Springs
  Laughing isn't a sin, but in the zany world of the musical comedy “Nunsense,” which opens Friday at the High Springs Community Theater, it could warrant three Hail Marys.
  June 12, 2013 - The Gainesville Sun
• Five Below Soars on Teen Shopping Craze Post Zany Brainy
  Five Below Inc. (FIVE) founders David Schlessinger and Thomas Vellios have so far learned to avoid the pitfalls that undid their last business -- the bankrupt Zany Brainy toy company. Still, the real test lies ahead.
  June 10, 2013 - Bloomberg

Quotes

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• Norman Siegel in SI.com
  The Knicks are trampling on what New York is all about - we're outspoken and we're zany at times,said Siegel. "But principles and values of free speech should be adopted. The Garden should rethink its policy."
• DB Cooper in Forbes
  It's sort of a zany idea for anyone who doesn't know anything about the river except that it's a box channel off the freeway,said Dan Cooper, author of "Important Bird Areas of California." "But those of us who spend a lot of time...
• Paul Keating in Sydney Morning Herald
  Paul Keating says he'll always remember Button's "penchant for devilment, for the zany and the unpredictable" and "the fun in being around such a quixotic character".