schizy
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of schizy
1925–30; schiz(ophrenia) + -y 1; schiz, schizo
Example Sentences
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It was his own line and I thought it was twice gold: once because it nailed that schizy quality of fame, and also because it so nicely captured the difference between the way it was back then, in 1974, when a big star and a journalist on assignment might roam around town together unencumbered by publicists, and now.
From The New Yorker
It's a schizy piece of work: part bombast, part hypercharged pop.
From Time Magazine Archive
So does Director Pierson, as he captures the schizy, druggy, enclosed, exploding tension of rock superstardom.
From Time Magazine Archive
The other woman is Helena Kallianiotes, who played a schizy hitchhiker in Five Easy Pieces.
From Time Magazine Archive
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