crazy
adjective
half-crazy
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a word derived from
crazy.
Example Sentences
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Mr. Morgan, whose inspiration seems clear enough—Robert De Niro’s Johnny Boy—is terrific as the half-crazy, wildly impulsive Mickey, whose abduction by the Italians occupies much of the early going.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
Its present action is a bus tour through Central Asia in 2016, following a pilgrimage most people would consider half-crazy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2022
He sensed Matisse was onto something and it drove him half-crazy.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 21, 2021
Mass tourism was invented by a God-fearing half-crazy Thomas Cook, which is the name of a travel agency now in the UK.
From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2020
There was a half-crazy simpleton, whom it was difficult to prevent from capering before the corpse—a perfect Davie Gelatly.
From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by A Sexton of the Old School
