bedlamite
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of bedlamite
Example Sentences
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It was a tangle of bedlamite ravings, with long screeds from the Scriptures intermixed like currants in a bag-pudding.
From Salute to Adventurers by John Buchan
It isn’t my fault that they are associated with nothing better at the decisive moment than the banal splendours of a gilded café and the bedlamite yells of carnival in the street.
From The Arrow of Gold A Story Between Two Notes by Joseph Conrad
I had been captured as the stray bedlamite from Hamilton jail.
From International Short Stories American by Various
He gibbered at me like a bedlamite, but I knew what I was doing.
From Salute to Adventurers by John Buchan
Doctor Slop, upon subjects divine, Such bedlamite slaver lets drop, Taat if Eady should take the mad line, He'll be sure of a patient in Slop.
From The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by William Michael Rossetti
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