insane person
Example Sentences
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Preston: I’ve go my own bags, and I am sure if they don’t recognize me as Elsbeth, they just think I’m another insane person who lives in New York City and no one cares.
From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026
"Please just know in these situations the insane person does not feel in control of their actions."
From Fox News • Jul. 2, 2020
Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. said Mr. Kahler’s actions did not appear to be those of an insane person.
From New York Times • Oct. 7, 2019
Written from a kind of artistic absolute zero, they scan like the announcements of an insane person or a god.
From The New Yorker • Jun. 13, 2019
But, in my opinion, Dr. McFarland, does not know a sane from an insane person; or else, why does he keep so many in that Asylum, as sane as himself?
From Marital Power Exemplified in Mrs. Packard's Trial, and Self-Defence from the Charge of Insanity by Packard, Elizabeth Parsons Ware