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Example sentences from the Web for half-madTo his detractors, he was a half-mad paranoiac who nearly destroyed the CIA in his obsessive search for a Soviet mole. The Bizarre Tale of Ben Bradlee, JFK, and the Master Spy|Will Rahn|October 22, 2014|DAILY BEAST But Daniel Day-Lewis is splendid as Lincoln, and Sally Field almost as good as the cunning, half-mad Mary. Making Lincoln Sexy: Jerome Charyn’s Fictional President|Tom LeClair|March 6, 2014|DAILY BEAST Pace Freud, artists do not have to be hard-living, half-mad or broke to make fine, authentic work. Lucian Freud, the Conservative Radical|Blake Gopnik|July 21, 2011|DAILY BEAST He saw what he might have been; he knew too well what he was—'half-mad, half-fed, half-sarket.' Robert Burns|Gabriel Setoun
Diccon the Bedlamite, a half-mad mendicant, both knave and thief. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol 1|The Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. Tharn was beginning to wonder what far-reaching effects this half-mad abduction would have on his future life. Warrior of the Dawn|Howard Carleton Browne He was starving and half-mad, that last letter to Catcott shows. Bristol Bells|Emma Marshall After we had passed the narrow inlet through the reef, we landed, to find the agent in a peculiar, half-mad condition. Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific|Felix Speiser
adjectivenot entirely sane extremely upset or distractedhalf-mad with fear Words nearby half-madhalf-life, half-light, half-line, half-liter, half-long, half-mad, half-marathon, half-mast, half measure, half-mile, half-miler Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 |