Thesaurus / maniac
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He was hardly reassured when members of the university’s board of trustees, following a special executive meeting convened by the governor in March, described Wallace as “scared,” “crazy,” and acting “like a raving maniac.”
HOW ROBERT F. KENNEDY SHAPED HIS BROTHER'S RESPONSE TO CIVIL RIGHTSPATRICIA SULLIVANAUGUST 11, 2021TIMEThere, in the crush, he unceremoniously lost her, and sped like a maniac to the entrance gates.
THE JOYOUS ADVENTURES OF ARISTIDE PUJOLWILLIAM J. LOCKEOn each side of the driver of the galloping steeds stood a man, shouting like a maniac of the boatswain type.
THE GARRET AND THE GARDENR.M. BALLANTYNEWe do not blame the maniac who burns a house down and brains a policeman, nor the mad dog who bites a minor poet.
GOD AND MY NEIGHBOURROBERT BLATCHFORDI regard Lucrezia Borgia as a homicidal maniac, and Torquemada as a religious maniac.
GOD AND MY NEIGHBOURROBERT BLATCHFORDBut Lasseroe was a maniac now and he wanted to take the life away from the jewelry designer.
HOODED DETECTIVE, VOLUME III NO. 2, JANUARY, 1942VARIOUSMr. Rundell found him swearing and raving in a great passion, sacking men and behaving like a maniac.
THE UNDERWORLDJAMES C. WELSHHe halted at the sound of rawkish peals of laughter—frightful, like those of a maniac.
THE PILGRIM'S SHELL OR FERGAN THE QUARRYMANEUGNE SUEThe maniac-world insists upon uniformity and obedience, especially in that department of life where uniformity is impossible.
THE DAUGHTERS OF DANAUSMONA CAIRDHis talk was a volcanic eloquence, reckless as to course and consequence; and his laugh had the peal of a maniac's yell.
ALONEMARION HARLANDWORDS RELATED TO MANIAC
- aberrant
- bewildered
- confused
- crazed
- crazy
- demented
- deranged
- deviant
- deviate
- disarranged
- disordered
- distracted
- disturbed
- flipped
- flipped-out
- hallucinatory
- incoherent
- insane
- irrational
- lightheaded
- lunatic
- mad
- maniac
- maniacal
- manic
- off one's head
- out of one's head
- out of one's skull
- rambling
- raving
- unhinged
- unreasonable
- unsettled
- wandering
- bananas
- bemused
- crackbrained
- daft
- delirious
- deranged
- distracted
- distraught
- flipped-out
- foolish
- frenzied
- fruity
- hysterical
- idiotic
- in the ozone
- lunatic
- mad
- maniac
- maniacal
- manic
- non compos mentis
- nutty as a fruitcake
- out of one's gourd
- out of one's tree
- psycho
- psychopathic
- psychotic
- schitzy
- schizoid
- unbalanced
- unglued
- unhinged
- unsound
- whacko
- ape
- baked
- bananas
- berserk
- cracked
- crazed
- delirious
- demented
- disarranged
- disconcerted
- disordered
- displaced
- distracted
- dotty
- flipped
- flipped-out
- frantic
- frenzied
- fried
- irrational
- loco
- lunatic
- mad
- maddened
- maniac
- maniacal
- nuts
- perplexed
- schizzo
- unbalanced
- unglued
- unhinged
- unscrewed
- unsettled
- unsound
- unzipped
- whacko
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