half-mad

British

adjective

not entirely sane
extremely upset or distracted

half-mad with fear

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Lawrence while Aunt Ada Doom injects a Gothic touch with her half-mad stare and ravings about “something nasty in the woodshed.”

From The Wall Street Journal

“Quinzy” did not answer, for Edward Ashton had sunk into his own half-mad thoughts.

From Literature

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

From Salon

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

From Literature

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

From Los Angeles Times

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