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Recent Examples of psychotic Consumption may increase manic and psychotic symptoms, and there may be a greater risk of suicide. Gary Stix, Scientific American, 29 Nov. 2022 The traditional anti-psychotic Haldol for example can cause severe Parkinson’s symptoms in patients with Lewy body dementia, but not in a patient with Alzheimer’s disease. Gretchen Cuda Kroen, cleveland, 18 Nov. 2022 Stories started getting a little more gothic and grittier, the longtime villains a little more unstable and psychotic. David Fear, Rolling Stone, 23 Feb. 2022 There was also a small, but worrisome risk of being diagnosed with a psychotic disorder such as schizophrenia or delusional thinking. Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 18 Aug. 2022 See All Example Sentences for psychotic
Recent Examples of Synonyms for psychotic
Adjective
  • With his shock of spiky hair and adrenaline rushes, Smith turns a corporate villain into a lunatic new-wave frontman.
    Charles McNultyTheater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2023
  • The first personality is the lunatic, chaotic artist, with no limits.
    John Bleasdale, Variety, 8 Dec. 2022
Adjective
  • Amanda learned in like 10 seconds, which is insane.
    Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Mar. 2025
  • The emu egg—a two pound, eight-inch ovoid with a sultry teal shell gently speckled in pale green—seemed like just the right absurdist final flourish for an already insane endeavor.
    Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 23 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Shinwell takes the rep aside and asks her to grab some of the antidote to the sickness that pushed Stephens into a coma, because the mad scientist must have some lying around.
    Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 11 May 2025
  • The late 19th century was a boom time for mad inventors, scam artists, and fast-talking salesmen.
    Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 9 May 2025
Adjective
  • Contrary to popular belief, peanuts are actually not nuts.
    Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Nonetheless, April 5, 2022, was nuts.
    Childs Walker, Baltimore Sun, 16 Mar. 2023
Adjective
  • Emerging from the darkness within the sewer, Pennywise erupts into maniacal laughter.
    Dory Jackson, People.com, 20 May 2025
  • Only here, the goal was more lighthearted and the audience did succeed in freeing the performers from the clutches of a exaggeratedly maniacal owner.
    Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2025
Adjective
  • This definition also includes instance in which the victim is incapable of giving consent because of temporary or permanent mental or physical incapacity (include due to the influence of drugs or alcohol) or because of age.
    Baltimore Sun staff, Baltimore Sun, 11 Apr. 2025
  • The actual policy changes related to the California Model, the secretary said, are limited to adapting training courses and working to make staff more aware of the mental and emotional consequences of trauma on staff and incarcerated people.
    William Melhado, Sacbee.com, 10 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Based on Roth’s fictitious trailer of the same name that appeared in Grindhouse (2007), Thanksgiving takes place in Plymouth, Massachusetts, where a masked maniac terrorizes the residents one year after a Black Friday riot ended in tragedy.
    Glenn Garner, Deadline, 19 May 2025
  • And yet our maniac coach is playing everyone too many minutes, including the injury prone players.
    James L. Edwards III, The Athletic, 14 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Tauruses will go crazy for something chic, functional, and soft to the touch.
    Meghan Rose, Glamour, 9 Feb. 2023
  • Before getting into the chaos of episode 5, that episode 4 cliff hanger was crazy.
    Calie Schepp, EW.com, 6 Feb. 2023

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“Psychotic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/psychotic. Accessed 25 May. 2025.

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