nuthouse
Example Sentences
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“Romeo and Juliet,” which had its North American premiere on Wednesday at the Ahmanson Theatre, combines the brooding sexual melancholy of “Spring Awakening” and the nuthouse authoritarianism of “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.”
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 1, 2024
Kelly wants to exit the nuthouse and he sees this as his best excuse, trumped-up though it is.
From New York Times • Feb. 9, 2018
It all happens for a reason and the more you sit around and worry about it… You’ll end up in the nuthouse.
From The Guardian • Jun. 4, 2017
"Holy Motors" - French, fantastical and nuthouse crazy, Leos Carax's film might seem the stuff of pretentious art house.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 14, 2012
Railroad Tommy had given him a janitor’s job to save him from the poorhouse, workhouse, or nuthouse, one.
From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
