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madhouse

[mad-hous] / ˈmædˌhaʊs /


NOUN
(older, offensive) residence for mentally ill people
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The team was undecided on how well Mellencamp’s biggest hits—sepia-tinted odes to small-town America—fit today’s college football madhouse cathedrals.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 16, 2026

The follow-up continues this kookiness with a madhouse spoof of Hallmark holiday saccharine in which a woodpile becomes a homicidal monster.

From Salon Dec. 18, 2025

Citizens Bank Park was a madhouse in Game 1, but the crowd for Game 2 was comparatively toned down.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 6, 2025

Mr Acciardo described the scene as a "madhouse" when first responders arrived.

From BBC Sep. 9, 2024

Betsie’s gentle voice startled me in that squirming madhouse.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

The burnt-orange and Sooner-red halves of the Cotton Bowl had alternated as madhouses.

From Washington Post Oct. 9, 2021

“The incarceration of freethinking healthy people in madhouses is spiritual murder,” he said.

From Washington Post Nov. 17, 2018

It would be a total madhouse but, remembering the previous total madhouses, you could go: OK, we just have to hold out for another 15 minutes and it will recede.

From Slate Jan. 7, 2013

"Robot apartments! invisible suburbs! skeleton treasuries! blind capitals! demonic industries! spectral nations! invincible madhouses!"

From Time Magazine Archive

Wait till in the distant future prisons and madhouses no longer exist, and there will be neither bars on the windows nor hospital gowns.

From The Horse-Stealers and Other Stories by Constance Garnett




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