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mentally ill
adjective
- having a mental illness.
noun
- Usually the mentally ill. mentally ill persons collectively.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of mentally ill1
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Example Sentences
Meanwhile, the number of mentally ill residents sitting in jail cells ballooned.
Escondido continues to grapple with the deadly shooting last week of a mentally ill homeless man, but police have still not released body-worn camera footage of the incident.
For decades, legislators underfunded mental health care and imprisoned mentally ill people.
The deinstitutionalization movement succeeded in reducing the mass warehousing of old and mentally ill people.
Old and mentally ill people were soon overrepresented among the homeless, in poor neighborhoods and in prisons.
One in five Pennsylvania inmates are classified as mentally ill.
We have 10 times as many mentally ill individuals behind bars than in psychiatric hospitals.
They want to hold the seat that Giffords had to give up after being shot in the head by a mentally ill man.
Everyone agrees that guns should be kept out of the hands of the mentally ill, even the National Rifle Association.
In many states, the mentally ill or intellectually disabled could be sterilized.
Because, my dear friend, you are mentally ill, and I wish to cure you.
Seward said that insane people were simply those who were mentally ill, and that "Hospital" was the proper term.
Yet if he came in contact with disease in another creature it left him mentally ill.
She had insight in so far as she knew she had been mentally ill.
He was mentally ill, to a point where he had through his delusions driven away all his old-time friends.
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