seem deranged
Frequency: 5.02.3 per million words
Describes the appearance of being mentally unstable.
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Examples (10)
- His wild eyes and frantic gestures made him seem deranged.
- After weeks of isolation, the lone survivor seemed completely deranged.
- The character in the play begins to seem deranged as the plot unfolds.
- With every rambling sentence, he seemed more and more deranged.
- Did his behavior truly seem deranged, or was he just under extreme stress?
- She seemed deranged with grief, shouting nonsensically at the sky.
- To the villagers, the old hermit living in the woods seemed quite deranged.
- His obsessive theories about conspiracies made him seem deranged to his colleagues.
- A person suffering from a high fever can sometimes seem deranged.
- The artist's final paintings were so chaotic they made him seem deranged.