as in psychotic
having or showing a very abnormal or sick state of mind
a thoughtful movie about a demented man trying to survive on the street
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My other grandmother resumed her housekeeping duties with a demented vigor, as if the scrubbing and polishing could remove the stain of her sins.
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Victor Lodato, The New Yorker, 29 July 2024
In addition to all that work, Coffin voices the demented gibberish spewed by the Minions, the bright yellow creatures who work alongside Gru.
Renaud, who co-helmed the fourth installment with Patrick Delage, says that the French influence was also there from the start.
—Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 10 July 2024
In fact, the end credits feature brief snippets from the 2015 film, probably to remind viewers of what happened in that movie but also maybe to end on a slightly more triumphant note than the totally demented actual finale of Furiosa.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 24 May 2024
In The Capital, all the genuine idealists in the novel are old, lonely, demented, or dead—with no connection to the modern world.
—Andrew Moravcsik, Foreign Affairs, 10 Dec. 2019
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Victor Lodato, The New Yorker, 29 July 2024
In addition to all that work, Coffin voices the demented gibberish spewed by the Minions, the bright yellow creatures who work alongside Gru.
Renaud, who co-helmed the fourth installment with Patrick Delage, says that the French influence was also there from the start.
—Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 10 July 2024
In fact, the end credits feature brief snippets from the 2015 film, probably to remind viewers of what happened in that movie but also maybe to end on a slightly more triumphant note than the totally demented actual finale of Furiosa.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 24 May 2024
In The Capital, all the genuine idealists in the novel are old, lonely, demented, or dead—with no connection to the modern world.
—Andrew Moravcsik, Foreign Affairs, 10 Dec. 2019
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