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In a mildly insane or fantastically or irrationally ludicrous manner.

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Usage examples (9)
  • The Emperor's New Groove makes no attempt to be anything other than zanily funny in the style of Dr. Seuss-combined-with-Warner-Brothers, and it succeeds nicely.
  • Bet "etiolate" would stump all but the most zanily creative among us.
  • The action spins zanily on, deftly finding its way to a happy - and hilarious - conclusion.
  • And in 1999 they were on the wrong end of one of the most zanily inspired passages of play in sporting history.
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