maniac

He was hardly reassured when members of the university’s board of trustees, following a special executive meeting convened by the governor in March, described Wallace as “scared,” “crazy,” and acting “like a raving maniac.”
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It would almost be less disturbing if he was showing some kind of sign he was a homicidal maniac.
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Of course, Kim Jong-Un takes an image hit as a Katy Perry-obsessed, margarita-drinking maniac with daddy issues.
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For as much as Walter was a maniac, he was at the forefront of printing art.
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Tom Sizemore is, it seems, no longer a maniac—but he's convinced he can still play one onscreen.
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“It fell out of the window, I think,” says the little maniac.
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There, in the crush, he unceremoniously lost her, and sped like a maniac to the entrance gates.
The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol|William J. Locke
On each side of the driver of the galloping steeds stood a man, shouting like a maniac of the boatswain type.
The Garret and the Garden|R.M. Ballantyne
We do not blame the maniac who burns a house down and brains a policeman, nor the mad dog who bites a minor poet.
God and my Neighbour|Robert Blatchford
I regard Lucrezia Borgia as a homicidal maniac, and Torquemada as a religious maniac.
God and my Neighbour|Robert Blatchford
But Lasseroe was a maniac now and he wanted to take the life away from the jewelry designer.
Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942|Various

British Dictionary definitions for maniac

maniac

/ (ˈmeɪnɪˌæk) /

noun

a wild disorderly person

a person who has a great craving or enthusiasm for somethinga football maniac

psychiatry obsolete a person afflicted with mania

Word Origin for maniac

C17: from Late Latin maniacus belonging to madness, from Greek

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Medical definitions for maniac

maniac

[ mā′nē-ăk′ ]

An insane person.

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