insane person

Example Sentences

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"Please just know in these situations the insane person does not feel in control of their actions."

From Fox News • Jul. 2, 2020

Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. said Mr. Kahler’s actions did not appear to be those of an insane person.

From New York Times • Oct. 7, 2019

Written from a kind of artistic absolute zero, they scan like the announcements of an insane person or a god.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 13, 2019

You’ve got to realize, you’re dealing with a very twisted, insane person.

From Slate • Feb. 12, 2019

In modern asylums we find one of the commonest of delusions to be that of the insane person who imagines himself to be a specially selected instrument of deity.

From Religion & Sex Studies in the Pathology of Religious Development by Cohen, Chapman