lunatic asylum

noun

another name, usually regarded as offensive, for mental home

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How to use lunatic asylum in a sentence

There, get along; if he were not so grossly immoral, he would be fit to shut up in a lunatic asylum.
At the Sign of the Cat and Racket | Honore de Balzac
I told you of him, Dr. John Seward, the lunatic-asylum man, with the strong jaw and the good forehead.
Dracula | Bram Stoker
To be hilarious in the Strand is to be unnatural, to court detention in a police cell or a lunatic asylum.
The Onlooker, Volume 1, Part 2 | Various
Thus had a madman prophesied of the boy one day when he and his nurse were taking a walk near the lunatic asylum at Charenton.
The History of Modern Painting, Volume 1 (of 4) | Richard Muther
Sam Stay had been removed to a lunatic asylum, and he was dimly conscious of the fact that the man had escaped.
The Daffodil Mystery | Edgar Wallace

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