crazed 1 of 2

sometimes offensive

crazed

2 of 2

verb

past tense of craze

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of crazed
Verb
Phoenix’s crazed, killer Batman villain is back, and he’s now joined by Lady Gaga as the equally insane Harley Quinn. Jordan Moreau, Variety, 4 Oct. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for crazed
Adjective
  • Brown's attorneys had said Brown could at times appear psychotic.
    Kevin Grasha, Cincinnati Enquirer, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Psychologists and psychiatrists are scrambling to better understand how use of chatbots can fuel delusions and drive psychotic episodes.
    Amy Feldman, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • And Kiritsis, as Skarsgård plays him (with a jittery but logical fast-talk fervor that makes this one of the actor’s two or three most potent performances), is a very different figure than the real Tony Kiritisis, who was older and more visibly deranged.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Fans are even speculating that Swift may drop the first single from her upcoming album, The Life of a Showgirl, in the series finale—which seems deranged, but weirder things have happened.
    Olivia Petter, Vogue, 2 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Can decades of quotidian contentment really hold a candle to the mad blush of first love?
    Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Poetry walks with me each step of my mad thinking.
    Rickey Laurentiis, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Malik Heath’s insane toe-tap grab on the sideline, which was reversed after video replay review, was a massive 37-yard swing for the Packers during the drive.
    Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 12 Sep. 2025
  • None of their other work, arguably, has had the seismic impact or inspires the same insane quotability as This Is Spinal Tap.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 12 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Vic and Cali hadn’t wanted a wedding, but this had disturbed Vic’s parents.
    Bryan Washington, New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Some civil servants working to bolster democracy around the world and at home, for example, were disturbed by shifts in foreign policy.
    Yvonne Zylan, The Conversation, 4 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The highlight of the maze was the children’s bedroom scene with moving furniture and a maniacal clown sliding out from underneath the bed.
    Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Wisecracking, cackling mini-maniac Teddy was the daredevil of the group.
    Sezin Devi Koehler September 1, EW.com, 1 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The walk to the penalty spot didn’t feel long for Bronze, partly because she was distracted by the strapping.
    Charlotte Harpur, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2025
  • First published in 1985, the book warned that the threat to American democracy came not from state repression, but from a culture distracted by amusement.
    Time, Time, 10 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • And among the three alternating points of view is one possibly unhinged bookseller.
    Susan Coll September 12, Literary Hub, 12 Sep. 2025
  • For those who never got sick of watching Dunder Mifflin’s few sane employees stare exasperatedly into the camera as one of its certifiable weirdos did something unhinged, there’s a good amount of that here, too.
    Judy Berman, Time, 3 Sep. 2025

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“Crazed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crazed. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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