rabid
adjective
irrationally extreme in opinion or practice.
rabidness
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a word derived from
rabid.
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
This all feels like yet another exercise in salacious, tabloid rabidness that has long plagued victimized women.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 16, 2024
“I know the story all too well. I lost my mother to this self-manufactured rabidness, and obviously I’m determined not to lose the mother to my children to the same thing.”
From Reuters ● Nov. 10, 2021
That probably won’t temper the rabidness in the Black Hole for the opener.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 7, 2018
They became unspeakably bitter and venomous, and I never before encountered such torrents of abuse and defamation, outstripping, as it seemed to me, even the rabidness which confronted the Abolitionists in their early experience.
From Political Recollections 1840 to 1872 by George W. Julian
Beneath the Jaquesian melancholy of my temperament he diagnosed the potentiality of canine rabidness.
From The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel by William John Locke
