mental case
Example Sentences
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The sorry business with Jimmy and Chuck: the latter has no case because Jimmy could always say that he was humoring Chuck, who was certifiably a mental case at the time.
From New York Times • Apr. 18, 2016
But behind the technical jargon, each delegate had his own mental case histories of poverty-crippled children back home with grotesquely protruding bellies, infected livers, horny thickening of the palms of their hands.
From Time Magazine Archive
Egyptian President Anwar Sadat has described him as "a mental case" and "a lunatic."
From Time Magazine Archive
Psychiatrists are leery of group hypnosis: they say that a borderline mental case, thus hypnotized, may slip over the line into insanity.
From Time Magazine Archive
Let me tell you why we do not regard Mr. Wetzel as a mental case.
From Call Him Savage by Pollard, John
