half-mad
not entirely sane
extremely upset or distracted: half-mad with fear
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How to use half-mad in a sentence
To his detractors, he was a half-mad paranoiac who nearly destroyed the CIA in his obsessive search for a Soviet mole.
The Bizarre Tale of Ben Bradlee, JFK, and the Master Spy | Will Rahn | October 22, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBut Daniel Day-Lewis is splendid as Lincoln, and Sally Field almost as good as the cunning, half-mad Mary.
Making Lincoln Sexy: Jerome Charyn’s Fictional President | Tom LeClair | March 6, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTPace Freud, artists do not have to be hard-living, half-mad or broke to make fine, authentic work.
Then she won, and went half mad with the joy and excitement, but the joy didn't last long.
Rosemary in Search of a Father | C. N. WilliamsonI went out to-night to take a quiet walk upon this place, and the horrid brazen discord of these trumpeters set me half mad.
Little Travels and Roadside Sketches | William Makepeace Thackeray
The little maid Anglore, half mad in her illusion, is none the less a very sympaPg 173thetic creation, and surely quite original.
Frdric Mistral | Charles Alfred DownerElise had been to Madame Degardy as good a friend as a half-mad creature, with no memory, would permit her.
When Valmond Came to Pontiac, Complete | Gilbert ParkerI cannot describe my own sensations, for I believe I was half mad with triumph and excitement.
The Adventures of Louis de Rougemont | Louis de Rougemont
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