neurotic

Example Sentences

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Germany is uniquely neurotic about debt and about unsound money.

From BBC • Mar. 27, 2026

And while Jerry’s perfectionism had a toll on their creative process, it also fueled it, making way for more neurotic characters that Anne could play straight against.

From Salon • Oct. 18, 2025

She won the Academy Award for best actress for 1977’s “Annie Hall,” in which she plays the neurotic titular heroine written by her former partner Woody Allen.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 11, 2025

Fans might argue they should be a bit more neurotic; screenplay structuralists will grumble they have no narrative arc.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 23, 2025

It is a compulsive, essentially neurotic kind of behavior, as mindless as an Ionesco character, but the wasp cannot imagine any other way of doing the thing.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas