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paranoid

adjective as in affected by paranoia

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Nixon may have been paranoid but at least he didn’t sound like a petulant teenager.

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DiCaprio stars as Bob, a paranoid ex-revolutionary living off-grid, who reunites with former accomplices as he's forced to confront an old nemesis after his daughter goes missing.

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“They were so paranoid. They knew they were being watched.”

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Zarutska’s suspected killer, DeCarlos Brown Jr., is a homeless man with a long criminal record and is a paranoid schizophrenic, according to his family.

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Multiple sources who approached the BBC described feeling "paranoid", "insecure", "isolated" and "mentally unwell" after learning that "secret files" were being kept on them.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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