neurotic

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Germany is uniquely neurotic about debt and about unsound money.

From BBC • Mar. 27, 2026

“Marty Supreme,” the story of a neurotic table tennis player trying to level up his game, recently became A24’s highest-grossing film at the domestic box office.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 22, 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

I’ve been as saving as an exceptionally neurotic magpie all my life, and I still have the next-to-the-last draft of the letter I wrote to Sister Irma that June night in 1939.

From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger