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
Unable to talk, unable to move, she is obviously a serious mental case, an ideal subject for Eminent Psychiatrist Vincent Price, who soon bustles up, brisk and professional.
From Time Magazine Archive
If considered a mental case he may enter a madman's cell, on Ile St. Joseph.
From Time Magazine Archive
Only this month Yale dismissed two men, one a mental case, the other a sensual one.
From Time Magazine Archive
All right, Nicky; I'll try to look at myself as a mental case....
From Non-combatants and Others by Macaulay, Rose, Dame
