hysteric
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But to her credit, Ms. Coon never turns the character into a wild-eyed hysteric or a manipulated figure of pure pathos.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026
As Freeman pulled into second base, a hysteric crowd of 52,995 rose to its feet.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 15, 2022
"He was clearly a sort of hysteric," he says.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2018
And anyone who implies that anything is abnormal is a hysteric or an opportunist or an attention-seeker.
From Slate ● Sep. 4, 2018
Now it is in the assimilation of these elementary sensations or affective states with the perception personnelle, as Janet terms it, that the advanced hysteric fails.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry) Myers
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