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
The DC-8 was the fourth U.S. plane skyjacked since May, and in this case the skywayman was plainly a mental case.
From Time Magazine Archive
If considered a mental case he may enter a madman's cell, on Ile St. Joseph.
From Time Magazine Archive
But behind the technical jargon, each delegate had his own mental case histories of poverty-crippled children back home with grotesquely protruding bellies, infected livers, horny thickening of the palms of their hands.
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
