neurotic

Example Sentences

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Germany is uniquely neurotic about debt and about unsound money.

From BBC • Mar. 27, 2026

If it sounds like we’re in the hands of a neurotic, what kind of people do we think become president?

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 20, 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’s all but doomed to be bourgeois and neurotic, as if a juvenile court has sentenced her to live in a New Yorker cartoon.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 3, 2025

It was typical Mommy neurotic behavior, and I didn’t fully understand it till I learned how far she had truly come.

From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride