Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Like a madman; characteristic of a madman.
- Somewhat mad; rather mad.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Somewhat mad.
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- adjective Somewhat
mad
Etymologies
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Examples
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When he got there, and asked if the jolly-jist was stirring yet, one servant snorted, and another grunted, till Joe got rather maddish; but at last one of them skipjacks of fellows, that wear a little jacket like a lass's bedgown, said he would see.
The Squire of Sandal-Side A Pastoral Romance Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr 1875
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He loved her, but he would certainly take her to be moved by a maddish whim; he would not try to understand her case.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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He loved her, but he would certainly take her to be moved by a maddish whim; he would not try to understand her case.
The Egoist George Meredith 1868
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He looked maddish with his love of the horrible thing, and resumed soberly: 'The point is, that she has the charm for me.
The Tragic Comedians — Complete George Meredith 1868
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He looked maddish with his love of the horrible thing, and resumed soberly: 'The point is, that she has the charm for me.
The Tragic Comedians — Volume 2 George Meredith 1868
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He looked maddish with his love of the horrible thing, and resumed soberly: 'The point is, that she has the charm for me.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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Excuse this maddish letter: I am too tired to write in formal --
The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb Mary Lamb 1805
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For they look upon it as right that every lover should be _a little maddish_; and, every attempt to rescue him from the thraldom imposed by their charms, they look upon as an overt act of treason against their natural sovereignty.
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He is the epitome of those evil characters you see in movies where maddish morons want to hold the world in the palm of their right hand, while they destroy mankind with the ultimate WMD they are holding in their left hand.
Drupal MariaS 2010
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Ferriani thus reports such a case in the words of the young man's mistress: "Certainly he is a strange, maddish youth, though he is fond of me and spends money on me when he has any.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women Havelock Ellis 1899
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