neurotic
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Psychiatrists described him as neurotic, with a tendency to ruminate and worry, and said he had developed a "rigid sense of right and wrong".
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
They are the diametrical opposites of Angela and Joe: calm and free, while their downstairs neighbors are neurotic and toxically codependent.
From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2026
Richards did tell Lindo that he needed to jettison some of the neurotic choices he was making as an actor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 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
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
For all his virtuosity, Wallace specialized in erudite neurotics from Middle America who suffer from various degrees of mental illness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2022
Storr acknowledged that Dr. Janov had “made a lot of neurotics feel better,” but he attributed the success essentially to the power of suggestion.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 4, 2017
They attack the very shelter nature had given them, something neurotics of all animal classes can relate to.
From Slate ● Feb. 13, 2017
This is, after all, a family of neurotics whose relatively easy lives are ruled by vague dissatisfaction.
From New York Times ● Sep. 23, 2016
Dora had handled plenty of neurotics in her time.
From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck
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