Examples
“How deranged is she to think that she can black-mail the possible next president of the US?”
“Maybe you could get a Skinny Puppy tribute band to open at your sparsely attended gigs in deranged venues.”
“My face was contorted into an expression of deranged wrath.”
“Here, the creeps look more like inept idiots, wearing their baseball caps sideways as if in deranged imitation of someone out of an "Our Gang" comedy.”
“Qadhafi has been called "deranged" and "delusional," but in the era of the shadow elite, his regime made at least one rational choice in choosing to host Perle, a consummate shadow lobbyist who was hired by a firm that makes K-Street look positively passe.”
“Surely the anticipated condition didn't come remotely close to the weekly masses faced by the Pope, who was last hit by a person identified as a deranged woman.”
“It seems likely that she knew perfectly well what she was doing and that it was contrary to law - she may well be "deranged" only in the sense in which many religious extremists are deranged, that is, in holding "deviant" views of what is moral.”
“I'm called deranged or whatever when I'm riffing in a bloggerly style that they obviously don't understand or appreciate.”
“I guess you better get out there protesting all the murders that are happening in the United States lest you be called deranged for pretending things are “OK” in the US.”
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“Insanity can be described as a deranged state of the mind usually occurring as a specific disorder as schizophrenia, and that which denies reality.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘deranged’.
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4084 more...
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Bonkers
List for old and new terms and phrases meaning crazy, nuts, batty, prone to extreme nervousness, etc.
bonkers, crazy, nuts, batty, batchy, bats in the belfry, scatty, crackers, windy, gone crackers, cracked, dingo and 92 more...
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disinformation
words meaning bad or not real data
foo, gobbledygook, spin, blacklist, corrupt, fraudulent, debauched, nefarious, untrustworthy, spam, deranged, mental and 22 more...
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Mentally irregular
Words for the mentally irregular
bonkers, unhinged, batshit crazy, cognitive dissonance, apophenia, undone, loony, unsound, deranged, a bit off the beam, daft, stark ravin' mad and 19 more...
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macabre
words associated with the macabre & horror.
ghastly, grisly, culeus, silly, gruesome, horrid, morbid, angelic, shocking, hideous, ghoulish, frightful and 85 more...
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de-
away from; off; down; entirely; undo; reverse
detrain, decline, defunct, defrost, debility, detract, deduce, deduct, delineate, defuse, debunk, debase and 7 more...
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Indeed
get a word in deed
derided, demoted, deflated, deranged, denoted, departed, defeated, deleted, deported, defended, debarked, debated
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Words to use more often
incommensurable, squalid, sordid, abscond, deranged, sagacity, enthralling, noctivagant, imperturbable, slither, sycophantic, ineffable and 2 more...
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Bonkers
crackers, barmy, half-baked, mental, unhinged, barking, cuckoo, cracked, nuts, mad, insane, touched and 24 more...
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TUH
This is a list of words inspired by Edward Gorey, or a rainy day, or tea in an overgrown garden with topiary shrubs and a sinister fountain. Feel free to contribute.
resurrectionist, urn, lymphoma, galoshes, reservoir, candelabra, deranged, rustle, brass, saltwater taffy, masonry, wallpaper
jmjarmstrong JM knows of an old chef who gave it up because he was deranged. Jun 27, 2011