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
There Lyn Smith was put under observation as a mental case.
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
But behind the technical jargon, each delegate had his own mental case histories of poverty-crippled children back home with grotesquely protruding bellies, infected livers, horny thickening of the palms of their hands.
From Time Magazine Archive
Tell her I want her to get three women of the right sort to take charge of a mental case which is coming to my nursing home.
From Jack O' Judgment by Wallace, Edgar
