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hypochondriac

noun as in neurotic

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Winslet’s chancellor is a nervy, vulgar, insecure hypochondriac obsessed with her dead demanding father, a sly reference, perhaps, to France’s Marine Le Pen.

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Doctors “called me a hypochondriac and said it was just anxiety and depression,” said Hannah Powell, a 26-year-old Utah woman who went undiagnosed for five years.

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Maybe I was one of those hypochondriacs, obsessing over Fig’s health.

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Danny is agoraphobic, socially anxious, obsessive, something of a hypochondriac and nominally a journalist, that most nominal of television professions.

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In a pre-pandemic world, even if flu cases were high, masking in public may have prompted a stranger to treat you like a mentally ill hypochondriac.

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

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