maniacal
Example Sentences
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He also put a maniacal focus on Apple’s supply chain, owing to his prior stint as the company’s chief operating officer.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 20, 2026
We should only expect more maniacal threats as time goes on.
From Slate • Apr. 11, 2026
If you’re reading this review of Gore Verbinski’s maniacal farce “Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die” in newsprint, congratulations on being a Luddite.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 12, 2026
In 2016’s The Mandibles, she created a character whom she described as a “pure piss-take” of herself: belligerent, tactless, a maniacal exerciser–the Ur-Boomer, utterly self-absorbed and an unalloyed financial disaster for society.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 31, 2026
Hermann Goring slapped his knee again, a maniacal grin on his face.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
Vocabulary lists containing maniacal
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