lunatic
noun
(no longer in technical use; now considered offensive) an insane person.
half-lunatic
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a word derived from
lunatic.
Example Sentences
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Yet for all his power, he lived a sunless, joyless, half-lunatic life in those same hideaways, a virtual prisoner walled in by his own crippling fears and weaknesses.
From Time Magazine Archive
A man who is a perfectly normal and agreeable citizen in his own environment becomes a suspicious half-lunatic when placed in circumstances uncomfortable and unaccustomed.
From The Forty-Niners A Chronicle of the California Trail and El Dorado by Stewart Edward White
At these words the Spaniard turned upon the American one of his sudden, staring, half-lunatic looks; then, relapsing into his torpor, answered, "Doubtless, doubtless, Señor."
From The Piazza Tales by Herman Melville
But the good conduct of Babo, hardly more than the ill-behavior of others, seemed to withdraw the half-lunatic Don Benito from his cloudy languor.
From The Piazza Tales by Herman Melville
He filled every one with his own half-lunatic life; but it was not expressed in destruction, but rather in a dizzy and toppling construction.
From Manalive by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
