How to Use deranged in a Sentence
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These movies are such a deranged vibe.
—Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 13 Dec. 2025
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One of his eyes had gone milky, deranged.
—Amanda Petrusich, New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2025
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These deranged traitors will face the full force of law.
—Caroline Wilburn, Houston Chronicle, 18 Feb. 2026
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What type of deranged people like to play around wit r@pe?
—Michael Saponara, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019
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The searching itself — from the healthy to the deranged — is the warning sign.
—Ariel David, Baltimore Sun, 16 Mar. 2026
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Dano is known to play deranged narcissists, but is clearly beloved by those who work with him.
—Dani Di Placido, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
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The plot of the series sees the band kidnapped by a deranged fan who forces them to release new music.
—Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 22 May 2026
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War begetting still more war, like some deranged biblical prophecy.
—Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 15 May 2026
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His deranged drowning scene is brilliant and totally bonkers.
—Frank Rizzo, Variety, 13 Apr. 2026
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Doing it against a team hellbent on drawing blood takes something downright deranged.
—Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 2 July 2026
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The sequel, which added Radcliffe as a deranged tech tycoon, was weaker.
—Rachel Simon, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2022
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Bear is overcome by the spell and emerges from the bathroom smiling—for one blissful moment, the two share the same deranged love.
—Dani Di Placido, Forbes.com, 20 May 2026
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And stuff each song with lyrics about '20s-generation malaise and deranged loners?
—Ew Staff Published, EW.com, 14 Aug. 2025
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Playing Emily again feels like slipping into a deranged pair of old slippers.
—Clayton Davis, Variety, 31 Oct. 2025
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There is something a little deranged about hearing Mazzulla talk about love.
—Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 14 Dec. 2025
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This place belongs to the Carver, a deranged butcher who hunts anything foolish enough to enter.
—Meredith G. White, AZCentral.com, 25 Sep. 2025
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The film follows Eileen who, reeling from a breakup, enrols in an intense gym class run by a charismatic but deranged coach.
—Alex Ritman, Variety, 9 Feb. 2026
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Some of the record’s more deranged metaphors will leave those in Gorillaz’s online cult reaching for narrative clues.
—Clayton Purdom, Rolling Stone, 21 Feb. 2023
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The villains are utterly sincere and deranged, vicious and human.
—Brian Truitt, USA Today, 22 Oct. 2025
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But, as written, the guidance signals the end of the deranged irreverence of the current market.
—Goodbye 2022 Dec. 26, Curbed, 26 Dec. 2022
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God is a deranged psycho who not only tolerates his world’s atrocities but conceives of them in strange and inhuman terms.
—Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 5 Dec. 2022
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Stacey’s consistent persona ultimately makes the women look even more deranged for calling it out.
—Shamira Ibrahim, Vulture, 24 Nov. 2025
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When the physical tics and the strange accent overtake his performance, Poe feels less eccentric and more deranged.
—Scott Phillips, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2023
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Jones added that the use of color was intentionally reserved for private areas like the deranged husband’s home screening room.
—Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 28 Jan. 2026
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With extreme horror and close-up nudity, the deranged, darkly humorous film barely clings to its R rating.
—Dallas News, 9 Feb. 2023
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Lennon was shot and killed by a deranged fan outside of their Upper West Side apartment building, the Dakota.
—Adam B. Vary, Variety, 10 Oct. 2025
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Thus the legislative branch of the federal government could spend the next two years probing itself, like some kind of deranged proctologist.
—Dave Barry, Washington Post, 25 Dec. 2022
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And that's not even to mention the deranged theory that Styles may have spit on—yes, spit on—co-star Chris Pine in broad daylight at the film's premiere.
—Milan Polk, Men's Health, 7 Nov. 2022
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Hearing the latter statement, about Kirchner’s willingness to die, some saw a radical on some kind of deranged mission.
—Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 4 Dec. 2025
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But the Democrats had inserted two other candidates even more deranged than Golden, so Poliquin didn’t quite get a majority.
—Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 7 Nov. 2025
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