derangement

Example Sentences

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This isn’t simply an American derangement, although the more people Jess meets through Felix, the more she realizes how little forces like her are appreciated.

From Salon • Jul. 10, 2025

The chair of the judges, Tate Britain director Alex Farquharson, said the work was "bold" and "engaging" with a sense of "delirious derangement".

From BBC • Dec. 5, 2023

Where his alleged co-conspirators displayed varying levels of shock, despair, and derangement, Trump glowered at the camera, creating an indelible photo.

From Slate • Aug. 25, 2023

That climactic sequence feels shamelessly opportunistic yet undeniably timely, at a cultural moment when shame seems to be in its own state of evolutionary derangement — or disappearance.

From Washington Post • Jun. 1, 2022

Everyone could hear, couldn’t they? the derangement in his voice.

From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles