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neurotic
adjective as in mentally maladjusted
Example Sentences
Jonny Greenwood returned, roaring, with his music for swarming strings and neurotic piano in “One Battle After Another.”
Freud believed the drive to collect was neurotic.
She won the Academy Award for best actress for 1977’s “Annie Hall,” in which she plays the neurotic titular heroine written by her former partner Woody Allen.
She’s all but doomed to be bourgeois and neurotic, as if a juvenile court has sentenced her to live in a New Yorker cartoon.
Then I grew into a neurotic adult with an ever-growing list of rational and irrational fears — from weird headaches and mold to running into casual acquaintances at the grocery store.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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