mental case
Example Sentences
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The sorry business with Jimmy and Chuck: the latter has no case because Jimmy could always say that he was humoring Chuck, who was certifiably a mental case at the time.
From New York Times ● Apr. 18, 2016
Egyptian President Anwar Sadat has described him as "a mental case" and "a lunatic."
From Time Magazine Archive
Psychiatrists are leery of group hypnosis: they say that a borderline mental case, thus hypnotized, may slip over the line into insanity.
From Time Magazine Archive
Only this month Yale dismissed two men, one a mental case, the other a sensual one.
From Time Magazine Archive
Especially so because they think they are physically ill, they did not come to me to be defined as a "mental" case and tend to reject such approaches.
From How and When to Be Your Own Doctor by Steve Solomon
