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maniac

noun as in lunatic

adjective as in insane, mad

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“I’m sitting here painting away like a maniac,” she admits.

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The city, he said, had been “overtaken by violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals, roving mobs of wild youth, drugged-out maniacs and homeless people.”

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A filing from Dominion’s lawsuit revealed that Pirro’s own Fox producer called her a “reckless maniac.”

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“Our capital city has been overtaken by violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals—roving mobs of wild youth, drugged-out maniacs, and homeless people.”

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Serial killers almost always worked alone, but there might be “one homicidal maniac or several,” The Times reported.

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