quite mad

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rather insane

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Examples (10)

  • Her colleagues thought her quite mad to give up such a well-paid job.
  • The old man lived alone in a house full of clocks, and many locals said he was quite mad.
  • "You're quite mad if you think I'm going to jump into that freezing lake!" he laughed.
  • The plan to build a bridge made entirely of cardboard seemed quite mad at first.
  • She looked quite mad with her hair all tangled and her clothes worn inside out.
  • The professor's theories were often dismissed by his peers as being quite mad.
  • It would be quite mad to go out in this hurricane without any protection.
  • Some of his inventions are brilliant, while others are just quite mad.
  • The eccentric explorer was considered quite mad by everyone in the small village.
  • Do you think I'm quite mad for suggesting we sell everything and move to a remote island?