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madman

[mad-man, -muhn] / ˈmædˌmæn, -mən /


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Was Kiritsis a narcissistic madman or a schmuck who’d put too much trust in the American ideals of hard work and fair treatment?

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 8, 2026

"Bibi acted like a madman," a White House official told the news website Axios.

From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2025

But heavy metal’s favorite madman leaves us with his reminder that “You Can’t Kill Rock and Roll.”

From Slate ● Jul. 25, 2025

The real fault should be assigned to the people who gave this madman a platform from which to spout his nutso rants.

From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2014

He must have felt sorry for the half-frozen madman who had spent the night among the livid ghosts of the graveyard.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende

He’d minnowed through sunburned madmen on winding Alpine passes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025

“My kid’s living on the coast, in town right now, so he can be safe from these armed madmen running around,” said Willow Creek grower Walter Wood.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2023

Things got pretty weird on the food scene, too, with the R&D labs for the nation’s fast-food chains seemingly overtaken by Frankensteinian madmen.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 7, 2023

There are few more efficient ways to unleash the demons, madmen, and ghosts hidden in the darkest crevices of the human psyche than to inject anxiety into our imaginations.

From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2022

I started to take off my coat and hang it up in the foyer closet, but that closet's full of hangers that rattle like madmen when you open the door, so I left it on.

From "The Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger


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