neurotic
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Sturgis specializes in these kinds of neurotic eccentrics, but his portrayal didn’t help me identify Ru’s secret appeal or believe in the trauma that we later learned occurred when his car broke down.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
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
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
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
What I did experience when alone was a sort of general neurotic horror, a common attack of nerves and self-loathing magnified to the power of ten.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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
He specializes in neurotics with an entertainingly blinkered viewpoint, and he has no interest in taking off the blinkers here.
From The Verge ● Jul. 22, 2015
Dora had handled plenty of neurotics in her time.
From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck
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