deranged person

Example Sentences

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Who except a deranged person would concoct a story about being in a scary helicopter emergency landing with a guy who wasn’t even there?

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 15, 2024

There were all kinds and colors of bags in various states of weathering, so it couldn’t have been the prank of one deranged person.

From Seattle Times • May 25, 2021

It will take many years, if ever, before Rancho Tehama residents feel safe in their community again, all because of an obviously deranged person.

From Washington Times • Nov. 16, 2017

Rather than send an email, I walked into my bathroom and started hacking away at my hair with a pair of nail scissors, like a deranged person in a bad horror film.

From The Guardian • Jun. 6, 2014

It is obvious that Smart's contemporaries and immediate successors looked upon the Song to David as the work of a hopelessly deranged person.

From Gossip in a Library by Gosse, Edmund