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Zany
/ˈzeɪni/
Synonyms for "zany" (153 found)
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Adjective(13 words)
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11 entriesCollocations
9 entrieszany anticszany attitudezany behaviorzany humorzany ideazany marketing stuntzany personalityzany schemezany sense of humor
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12 total sentences available.
He always had a zany sense of humor.
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The otherwise dark and serious comic is punctuated by pages of zany side stories.
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And I will admit now but never then that, more than once, listening to the Viennese chattering their zany German on the pavements, or taking himself to one of the struggling small theatres that were cropping up in cellars and bombed houses...
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