How to Use demented in a Sentence
demented
adjective- Many of the patients there were demented.
- He gave me a demented little smile.
- Her demented ramblings are a symptom of her illness.
- In the movie, he plays a demented man trying to survive on the streets of Los Angeles.
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These men were on the front line guarding the White House, and were killed by a sick and demented man.
—Washington Post, 29 July 1998
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The movie is every bit as demented and bizarre as that task.
—Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Aug. 2019
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Marie and the character are aligned in a demented, carpe diem sort of way.
—Peter Marks, Washington Post, 25 May 2023
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What kind of sick demented cruel mind thinks of things like this to post?
—Travis M. Andrews, Washington Post, 20 Feb. 2018
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These are sick and demented people who were in the sights of Scotland Yard.
—Tim Ross, Bloomberg.com, 15 Sep. 2017
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These are sick and demented people who were in the sights of Scotland Yard.
—Chas Danner, Daily Intelligencer, 17 Sep. 2017
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These are sick and demented people who were in the sights of Scotland Yard.
—Kate Samuelson, PEOPLE.com, 15 Sep. 2017
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These are sick and demented people who were in the sights of Scotland Yard.
—David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 15 Sep. 2017
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These are sick and demented people who were in the sights of Scotland Yard.
—Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 15 Sep. 2017
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These are sick and demented people who were in the sights of Scotland Yard.
—William Booth, Washington Post, 16 Sep. 2017
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These are sick and demented people who were in the sights of Scotland Yard.
—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 15 Sep. 2017
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These are sick and demented people who were in the sights of Scotland Yard.
—Alex Shephard, New Republic, 15 Sep. 2017
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Egads, there's a demented psychopath popping out of the wall.
—John Petkovic, cleveland.com, 13 Oct. 2017
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That is so demented to me, to even question anyone other than the rapist.
—Amber Dowling, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 May 2017
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The walls of the demented ballet school that serves as the film’s nightmarish setting are blood red, both inside and out.
—Aja Romano, Vox, 9 Nov. 2018
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It’s to create a playlist for your future demented self.
—Eric Zorn, chicagotribune.com, 14 June 2019
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It’s to create a playlist for your future demented self.
—Eric Zorn, chicagotribune.com, 14 June 2019
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Here are some of our favorite—and most demented—Coachella looks.
—Liz Raiss, GQ, 17 Apr. 2018
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Blenny fish have always been notable for their big teeth—choppers that give their mouths a demented kind of grin.
—Erin Blakemore, Smithsonian, 3 Apr. 2017
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Even Richard Nixon at his most demented never levelled the sort of charges that Trump hurls on a daily basis.
—John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2017
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Hadn’t the rowdy boys cheered louder for my talent, which was whistling like a somewhat demented bird?
—Mary Grimm, The New Yorker, 17 June 2019
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But this book is a lot more demented than a simple whodunnit.
—Megan McCarthy, USA TODAY, 28 Mar. 2020
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There is also an excellent, if not a little demented, twist at the end.
—Rosa Escandon, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2025
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Plaza, too, is demented and funny and satirical and teeming with almost too much pathos to watch.
—Allison P. Davis, The Cut, 1 Aug. 2017
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But even the show’s pretty ingénue, the fair Rosamund, is played by Ahna O’Reilly with a goofy, innocent grin that borders on demented.
—Ben Brantley, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2016
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Mickey is racked with guilt over a fateful childhood mistake, and so his purgatorial existence, in which he is denied the pleasures of life and the closure of death, becomes a demented search for grace.
—Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2025
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