mental case
Example Sentences
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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
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
The DC-8 was the fourth U.S. plane skyjacked since May, and in this case the skywayman was plainly a mental case.
From Time Magazine Archive
If considered a mental case he may enter a madman's cell, on Ile St. Joseph.
From Time Magazine Archive
Especially so because they think they are physically ill, they did not come to me to be defined as a "mental" case and tend to reject such approaches.
From How and When to Be Your Own Doctor by Steve Solomon
