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
Then the inverse is that she was this kind of death-obsessed, half-crazy, madwoman.
From Slate ● Jan. 11, 2021
Old Ingebertsen comes forward and tells me the bare facts, and how Maren lies at his house, half-crazy, suffering with her torn and frozen feet.
From Stories by American Authors, Volume 3 by Various