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also paranoic
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Adjective
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Occasionally held back by a very mid-'00s aesthetic and stylistic choices that come across second-rate David Lynch, No Smoking is nonetheless an effectively paranoid adaptation of King for another culture.—
James Grebey,
Time,
12 Sep. 2025 -
The threat is enough to make Cherry paranoid.—
Rafaela Bassili,
Vulture,
10 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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People can deliberately cultivate more conscientiousness, boost their sociability or soften their neurotic edges.—
Dave Winsborough,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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The actor who lets loose the most on The Studio is Kravitz, who sheds her cool-girl persona for something much more neurotic and career-minded.—
Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
5 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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According to court and police record, police were conducting a welfare check on Brown, where he was diagnosed as schizophrenic.—
Amanda Castro
Hannah Parry,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Sep. 2025
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Advertisement Hawley worked from a similar playbook with Legion, whose apparently schizophrenic superhero filtered a fast-evolving cultural conversation around mental illness through a psychedelic kaleidoscope, and especially Fargo.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
5 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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The idea of a schizoid Lady M is not entirely without appeal, but despite strong performances across the board, the work runs aground fast.—
Rhoda Feng,
Washington Post,
14 Apr. 2024
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The entire movie, of course, was a goof, a schizoid cardboard Vaudeville horror burlesque shot in two days and a night by Roger Corman.—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
12 Apr. 2024
Adjective
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Madharaasi is a psychological action thriller film about an operation against a gun-syndicate and the encounter with a delusional patient.—
Sweta Kaushal,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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To be a quarterback means being selfish and sometimes delusional.—
Louisa Thomas,
New Yorker,
7 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Jacintha, a horseback rider, was familiar with ketamine as a horse tranquilizer but had never heard of it as a last-stop mental health treatment for treatment-resistant patients like Lucy, who was diagnosed with depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder.—
Rachel Hale,
USA Today,
10 Sep. 2025
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Researchers focused on five serious and common mental health symptoms: suicidal thoughts, hallucinations, delusions, mania and obsessive-compulsive behavior.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
27 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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There was the Miami Miracle in 2018, a last-second collapse on a hook-and-lateral play that ended with Rob Gronkowski playing defense and diving unsuccessfully as Kenyan Drake sped into the end zone for a game-winning touchdown in a delirious stadium.—
Andrew Callahan,
Boston Herald,
13 Sep. 2025
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This detail, at once tragic and comic, painfully human and stupidly bureaucratic, captures something essential about Schattenfroh, an extremely dark novel about the horrors of modern European history laced with the delirious, disconcerting humor of a Hieronymus Bosch painting.—
Book Marks
September 11,
Literary Hub,
11 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Given its plotting, Brooks’s movie could easily have made Iris into a harridan and Isaac into a sociopathic rogue.—
Graham Hillard,
The Washington Examiner,
15 Aug. 2025
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Instead, she’s blossomed into a talented, sociopathic agent, working for Caddis, a sinister spy organization led by David’s former partner, Juno (Piper Perabo).—
Aramide Tinubu,
Variety,
13 Aug. 2025
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“Paranoiac.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/paranoiac. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.
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