neurotic
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The neurotic self-policing about the supposed rules of engagement has given way to something that looks more like confidence.
From Salon • May 30, 2026
Germany is uniquely neurotic about debt and about unsound money.
From BBC • Mar. 27, 2026
She was one of many authors he wrangled—alcoholic William Faulkner, neurotic Dr. Seuss, industrious James Michener, imperious Philip Roth.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 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
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
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