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basket case

noun as in nervous person

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Fifteen years later, Libya remains a basket case of militias, warlords and weak institutions.

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The supporters didn't want him to leave at the end of his second season in July this year, but thought he was better off out of the basket case.

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Venezuela is an economic basket case with a smaller population than Texas and virtually no functioning civil society.

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After a quippy kidnapping montage with Plemons and Aidan Delbis’ characters set to Green Day’s “Basket Case,” Stone is shown lying unconscious in a bed.

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That aside, politics were kept to a minimum, as the group delivered a high-voltage blast of their greatest hits, from the bratty pop-punk of Basket Case to the more reflective Boulevard of Broken Dreams.

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

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