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neurotic
adjective as in mentally maladjusted
Example Sentences
In “Grownups,” for instance, Feiffer examined the world of an unhappily married reporter for the New York Times and his neurotic Jewish family, who drive him crazy with their expectations.
“I was ignored and made to feel like a neurotic mum - nobody was listening,” Christina says.
It’s a sinister mode of decadence — decadent minimalism, where overt virtue signaling meets seemingly neurotic purity fantasies, where customers dance in the glow of the glare on bulk bins.
"Today’s young women know that neurotic isn’t cute. Cute isn’t cute. Neither is flustered, madcap, zany, flighty, flaky, harried or hapless - all adjectives that apply to Bridget."
He is the opposite of that, a shaky, neurotic, small, insecure man who has little belief in himself.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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