maniacal

It's only the maniacal laughter in the fading bars that suggests this outlook is the purview of a madman.

Only here, the goal was more lighthearted and the audience did succeed in freeing the performers from the clutches of a exaggeratedly maniacal owner.

I slipped into the shoes of a maniacal 81-year-old widow so effortlessly it was almost frightening.

The maniacal slogging at the beginning of his tenure as captain was a lighting of the way for his England team-mates.

I’m excited to witness his maniacal vocal stylings on haunting covers of well-known songs, which I’ll probably never be able to hear in quite the same way again.