Thesaurus / demented
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A brain scan showed such deterioration that the neuroradiologist said it looked like the MRI of a demented 85-year-old.
A STAY IN THE ICU CAN BE TERRIFYING. IT MIGHT NOT GET BETTER AFTER RELEASE.KATIE HAFNEROCTOBER 29, 2021WASHINGTON POSTPerhaps those numbers are overstated, but that’s still a lot of people willing to publicly express confidence in one of the more demented ideas that’s ever emerged.
ELEVATING DOUBT IS THE POINTPHILIP BUMPMAY 27, 2021WASHINGTON POSTShe paused when she was beside the bed, and stood looking down upon him in that demented fashion.
THE HOMESTEADEROSCAR MICHEAUXShe made no reply, trembled, put her hair and her clothes straight again with the fingers of a woman demented.
THE NABOBALPHONSE DAUDETThe demented girl seemed not to hear, she did not even raise her eyes, and continued swaying to and fro and to laugh.
THE PILGRIM'S SHELL OR FERGAN THE QUARRYMANEUGNE SUEAh, I see you think I am demented because I say that, but my husband is alive.
MARY LOUISE AND JOSIE O'GORMANEMMA SPEED SAMPSONLetter has just come, and I am demented about my new godchild!
A CONFEDERATE GIRL'S DIARYSARAH MARGAN DAWSONA more demented crew never drifted to the rear of broken battalions.
THE COLLECTED WORKS OF AMBROSE BIERCEAMBROSE BIERCEHe was regarded as a lunatic, a demented man, because he professed to believe in a personal God.
BEACON LIGHTS OF HISTORY, VOLUME VJOHN LORDThen I took an imaginary case—that of some old demented man mumbling of his former state.
MARK TWAIN, A BIOGRAPHY, 1835-1910, COMPLETEALBERT BIGELOW PAINEWORDS RELATED TO DEMENTED
- anomalous
- atypical
- bizarre
- crazy
- curious
- demented
- disquieting
- doubtful
- droll
- dubious
- eccentric
- eerie
- erratic
- extraordinary
- fishy
- flaky
- fly ball
- freaky
- funny
- idiosyncratic
- irrational
- irregular
- kinky
- kooky
- mad
- mysterious
- oddball
- off the wall
- outlandish
- outre
- outré
- peculiar
- puzzling
- quaint
- questionable
- remarkable
- shady
- singular
- strange
- suspicious
- touched
- unbalanced
- uncanny
- uncommon
- unconventional
- unhinged
- unnatural
- unorthodox
- unusual
- wacky
- weird
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.