Thesaurus / demented
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She paused when she was beside the bed, and stood looking down upon him in that demented fashion.
THE HOMESTEADEROSCAR MICHEAUX
She made no reply, trembled, put her hair and her clothes straight again with the fingers of a woman demented.
THE NABOBALPHONSE DAUDET
The demented girl seemed not to hear, she did not even raise her eyes, and continued swaying to and fro and to laugh.
Ah, I see you think I am demented because I say that, but my husband is alive.
MARY LOUISE AND JOSIE O'GORMANEMMA SPEED SAMPSON
Letter has just come, and I am demented about my new godchild!
A CONFEDERATE GIRL'S DIARYSARAH MARGAN DAWSON
A more demented crew never drifted to the rear of broken battalions.
THE COLLECTED WORKS OF AMBROSE BIERCEAMBROSE BIERCE
He was regarded as a lunatic, a demented man, because he professed to believe in a personal God.
BEACON LIGHTS OF HISTORY, VOLUME VJOHN LORD
Then I took an imaginary case—that of some old demented man mumbling of his former state.
MARK TWAIN, A BIOGRAPHY, 1835-1910, COMPLETEALBERT BIGELOW PAINE
Upon one point he was positively demented—the only four-footed maniac I ever knew.
ROOF AND MEADOWDALLAS LORE SHARP
His view was that a demented person who was willing to sacrifice his own life could take the President's life.
WARREN COMMISSION (7 OF 26): HEARINGS VOL. VII (OF 15)THE PRESIDENT'S COMMISSION ON THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY
WORDS RELATED TO DEMENTED
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- off one's rocker
- out of one's mind
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- screwy
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- bent
- bent out of shape
- beside oneself
- boiling
- browned off
- bummed out
- corybantic
- crazed
- demented
- desperate
- enraged
- fierce
- fit to be tied
- foaming at the mouth
- frantic
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- in a towering rage
- incensed
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- smoking
- steamed
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- up in arms
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- fallacious
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- injudicious
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- cuckoo
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- disordered
- distraught
- dotty
- fatuous
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- idiotic
- impractical
- irrational
- irresponsible
- loony
- lunatic
- mad
- mad as a hatter
- maniac
- maniacal
- mental
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- moonstruck
- not all there
- nuts
- nutty
- nutty as a fruitcake
- of unsound mind
- off
- off one's rocker
- out of one's mind
- paranoid
- preposterous
- psychopathic
- psychotic
- rabid
- raging
- raving
- schizophrenic
- screwy
- senseless
- sick in the head
- stark raving mad
- touched
- unbalanced
- unhinged
- unsettled
- unsound
- wild
- wrong
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.