mental case
Example Sentences
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The sorry business with Jimmy and Chuck: the latter has no case because Jimmy could always say that he was humoring Chuck, who was certifiably a mental case at the time.
From New York Times • Apr. 18, 2016
Said one top police official: "This looks like completely a mental case, and if that's what finally comes out, that should wrap it up."
From Time Magazine Archive
But no doubt a peculiar loneliness descends upon the autocrat condemned to live out his days in one of the upstairs rooms, like a mental case in the family.
From Time Magazine Archive
If considered a mental case he may enter a madman's cell, on Ile St. Joseph.
From Time Magazine Archive
A mental court case Suppose a mental case to be on trial, as cases are tried 430:18 in court.
From Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures by Eddy, Mary Baker
