deranged

adjective

de·ranged di-ˈrānjd

Synonyms of deranged next

often offensive : mentally unsound : insane sense 1b

—not used technically

: wildly odd or eccentric

His life was crowded, rather than peacefully isolated, and certainly never of an Olympian detachment, even though he was capable of quite deranged gestures of show-offy extravagance—such as buying an enormous house, more suitable for a banker than a painter …—

Robert Hughes

Or you could take part in a deranged computer game where you had to cycle after a huge beach ball, scoop it up and throw it through a hoop, scoring points for each goal.—

Natasha Ellis

dated : disturbed or disordered in function, structure, or condition

My leg was propped up on a library chair at the time, as it was too deranged to bend.—

Cynthia Gorney

But other work indicates that, in addition, the B lymphocytes of lupus patients are inherently deranged …—

Moncef Zouali

Examples of deranged in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Here, a young fisherman washes up on a mysterious island, only to be captured by a deranged captain who is hunted by a dark hungry beast. —

John Hopewell, Variety, 5 Apr. 2023 Monday’s murder of six people, including three 9-year-olds, by a deranged attacker at a Christian primary school in Nashville is another sign of mental illness unleashed. —

The Editorial Board, WSJ, 29 Mar. 2023 Joe, constantly bickering and wrestling with his evil side (personified in his head as a deranged version of Rhys Montrose (Ed Speleers), still around even after Joe killed the real Rhys Montrose), has decided to kill himself after Marianne seemingly died as his prisoner. —

Evan Romano, Men's Health, 10 Mar. 2023 In the first film of the franchise, Pattinson's Batman follows the trail of a deranged serial killer called the Riddler (Paul Dano) and uncovers corruption in Gotham, meeting the antiheroine Catwoman (Zoë Kravitz) along the way. —

Charlotte Walsh, Peoplemag, 9 Mar. 2023 Jason seems much more human and vulnerable here, coming across as more like a deranged killer who's been living in the woods than an actual zombie. —

Brendan Morrow, The Week, 13 Jan. 2023 By replanting this narrative with small-town Southern roots into a Western self-reliance tale, while mixing in the deranged, the author has fashioned an eccentrically satisfying literary mash-up. —

Erik Gleibermann, Washington Post, 26 Mar. 2023 In this action thriller directed by Oscar winner Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker), Curtis stars as rookie cop Megan Turner, who engages in a game of cat and mouse with a deranged psychopath. —

Robert English, EW.com, 17 Mar. 2023 Some of the antagonists are the Vikings, the high-school football team, who are never not wearing their uniforms and who function as a deranged sendup of the patriarchy — think John Hughes villains played by the Ridiculous Theatrical Company. —

Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 12 Mar. 2023 See More

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