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- noun Plural form of
neurotic .
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Examples
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Well, she likes the sensationalism and the drama and the sympathy for others, but you know the phrase neurotics build castles in the skies, psychotics live in them?
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They are of scientific interest as presenting an instructive series of studies in neurotics, but they are perhaps a little too bulletinish for the general taste.
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Of late years we often hear people referred to as neurotics, neurasthenics, psychasthenics, neuropaths or psychopaths.
Woman Her Sex and Love Life William J. Robinson
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This ironic deployment of "bizarre" and "strange" is not so much a reflection on the Dutch as on the neurotics, speed-freaks and oddballs she encounters back in the UK.
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Priests, nuns, pastors, Muslims, Buddhists, would-be suicides, depressives, neurotics . . . there were so many beautiful and interesting people around us who were ignored by society.
Dreamseller: The Calling Augusto Cury 2011
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But in her three characters, she does an amazingly good job of producing entertaining and lovable neurotics.
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It always struck me how many comedians of all types were really neurotics underneath, whether Lenny Bruce, Kenneth Williams, even Les Dawson.
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(31 January 1967.) "In order to do so, [Vidal] assigned to the word ‘neurosis’ a meaning I have never heard it given, not even by conventional neurotics."
r_urell: William F. Buckley: Father of Modern "Conservatism" r_urell 2010
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Priests, nuns, pastors, Muslims, Buddhists, would-be suicides, depressives, neurotics . . . there were so many beautiful and interesting people around us who were ignored by society.
Dreamseller: The Calling Augusto Cury 2011
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Priests, nuns, pastors, Muslims, Buddhists, would-be suicides, depressives, neurotics . . . there were so many beautiful and interesting people around us who were ignored by society.
Dreamseller: The Calling Augusto Cury 2011
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