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madman

[mad-man, -muhn] / ˈmædˌmæn, -mən /


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What sort of world leader, besides a madman, talks like this?

From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026

Was Kiritsis a narcissistic madman or a schmuck who’d put too much trust in the American ideals of hard work and fair treatment?

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 8, 2026

"Bibi acted like a madman," a White House official told the news website Axios.

From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2025

The real fault should be assigned to the people who gave this madman a platform from which to spout his nutso rants.

From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2014

Change, that's all he'll get from her; he'd have to beg on his knees before she'd sign Grace Windsor Wexler on the ten-thousand-dollar check, that madman.

From "The Westing Game" by Ellen Raskin

He’d minnowed through sunburned madmen on winding Alpine passes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025

Yohji is one of fashion’s great madmen and I wanted to take the trousers to someone who would look at it as a job and not a bizarre art piece.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2024

“Daniel Brush is indistinguishable from many madmen in New York City,” a friend, the novelist and travel writer Paul Theroux, wrote in an introduction to an illustrated collection of the artist’s work.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 12, 2022

There are few more efficient ways to unleash the demons, madmen, and ghosts hidden in the darkest crevices of the human psyche than to inject anxiety into our imaginations.

From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2022

They spilled the contents right at our door and left, guffawing like madmen.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane




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