neurotic
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Germany is uniquely neurotic about debt and about unsound money.
From BBC • Mar. 27, 2026
Jonny Greenwood returned, roaring, with his music for swarming strings and neurotic piano in “One Battle After Another.”
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 1, 2025
Freud believed the drive to collect was neurotic.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 24, 2025
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
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
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