mental case
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The sorry business with Jimmy and Chuck: the latter has no case because Jimmy could always say that he was humoring Chuck, who was certifiably a mental case at the time.
From New York Times ● Apr. 18, 2016
If considered a mental case he may enter a madman's cell, on Ile St. Joseph.
From Time Magazine Archive
Psychiatrists are leery of group hypnosis: they say that a borderline mental case, thus hypnotized, may slip over the line into insanity.
From Time Magazine Archive
But no doubt a peculiar loneliness descends upon the autocrat condemned to live out his days in one of the upstairs rooms, like a mental case in the family.
From Time Magazine Archive
Here should come a letter to Mr. Hudson dated February 1, 1826, recommending a nurse for a mental case.
From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 6 Letters 1821-1842 by Mary Lamb
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