neurotic

Example Sentences

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Germany is uniquely neurotic about debt and about unsound money.

From BBC • Mar. 27, 2026

On the darker side, I’ve seen gluttonous greed and an utterly neurotic need to fit in and be seen.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

Irritable, neurotic, decent, confused and sardonic, Larry is a refreshing nod to the kind of spiky haplessness Jack Lemmon mastered.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 25, 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

He was a reader and recognized his habit of reading as obsessive and neurotic, and told himself that if he read something less frivolous than newspapers and magazines he might indeed be better off.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson