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.