madwoman
Americannoun
plural
madwomennoun
Etymology
Origin of madwoman
Example Sentences
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“There’s a fine line between madwoman and dreamer,” Maxine will observe, from the vantage of that line.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2024
Biographer Judith Thurman, writing in the New Yorker in 2001, called Dr. Milford’s biography “one of the big literary events of the feminist new wave — the first liberation of a madwoman from the attic.”
From Washington Post • Apr. 1, 2022
"My sister, my hilarious, charming, perfect sister: now other. The irate madwoman on the train," Leddy says.
From Fox News • Mar. 28, 2022
To be made mad or to be seen as a madwoman.
From Salon • Jul. 17, 2021
The sound of his key turning in the lock brought back my time in the City Hall dungeon with the madwoman and the rats.
From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson
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