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insanity
noun as in mental illness; foolishness
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Attesting to the insanity of Italian voters, they kept voting the same way and expecting a different result.
Justice Kennedy might have spared the country a prolonged fit of insanity by plumping the other way in Obergefell and letting voters hash out the issue themselves.
While initially convicted of first-degree murder in Worden’s death, he was eventually declared not guilty by reason of insanity — diagnosed as schizophrenic — and was institutionalized until his death due to complications from cancer in 1984.
If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results, then Dave Roberts is clearly certifiable.
While she did kill her children, she was "not guilty of murder by reason of insanity," her lawyer said.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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