half-mad

adjective

1. not entirely sane

2. extremely upset or distracted

   half-mad with fear

Example Sentences

There was Lydia, a half-mad, matronly Portuguese divorcee with a teenage daughter.

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Ludovico Sforza, the patron of the lavish Milanese Renaissance, would die, half-mad, in a French dungeon.

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Saul, the first king of Israel, ended his reign in defeat, half-mad and disgraced, replaced by the upstart David.

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Indeed, it drove them both half-mad.

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Ruva wasn’t ill, but she was half-mad with fear and grief.

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