barmy

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Predicting the weather over the next 72 hours, Krick favors what might generously be termed a historically informed approach and what might ungenerously be dubbed barmy pseudoscience.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026

That may sound barmy, what with all the ships being deployed in and around the Arabian Sea for weeks already, and reports that the military is running out of munitions.

From Salon • May 12, 2026

In practice, it was, well, a bit barmy.

From Salon • Aug. 19, 2025

In the summer he said her plan for an independence referendum was "barmy" and that he wanted to "take her on and beat her".

From BBC • Oct. 25, 2022

“Nothing over there but bogland and barmy weather.”

From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs