demented
adjective
crazy; insane; mad.
half-demented
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a word derived from
demented.
Example Sentences
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Sometimes, you might be swept up in Mikey’s brazen, half-demented self-confidence.
From New York Times ● Dec. 9, 2021
Shaffer’s “Amadeus” adopts the same dynamic, although there the elderly, half-demented Salieri merely believes that he has killed Mozart—a self-accusatory metaphor for his poisonous intent.
From The New Yorker ● May 27, 2019
The first song of “Das Lied von der Erde” is a half-demented howl at the moon, thrilling and existentially charged and powerful.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 17, 2016
That’s not Gore Vidal; that’s a sick, half-demented old man.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 14, 2015
“It concerns him, too—both of you—” Even as I spoke, once more the incredibility of any connection between this glorious creature and that poor, starved, half-demented wreck of humanity, struck me afresh.
From The Red Symbol by John Ironside
