half-cracked
Example Sentences
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His half-cracked grandeur, boosted by Smith’s skewed stares of adoration, sends the movie into a loopy giddiness.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 29, 2023
Best scene: farewell of Bertha Geiger. half-cracked old family servant, to her mistress who does not remember her.
From Time Magazine Archive
Examining his life as a middle-aged iconoclast, he cackles with glee at his own half-cracked ideas.
From Time Magazine Archive
And Vandalia Eubanks, tucked away upstairs in Grandma’s house, was ready to make hers, in spite of her half-cracked mother, Idella.
From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck
“I’m sure Jamison would rush out here with a box of chocolates and a featherbed if he knew there was a starveling half-cracked student living under his University. They’d crock her and you know it.”
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
