monomaniac
Example Sentences
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I was that bore, that monomaniac, that moralizer—an idealist.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 8, 2019
There’s something compellingly off about him; he’s a milk-drinking straight arrow with a monomaniac streak that runs him afoul of department politics.
From New York Times ● Oct. 12, 2017
Despite his fervour, anchoritic existence and frequent depiction as one-part Don Quixote, one-part Antoni Gaudí and one-part monomaniac, Gallego is very aware of how he is seen in the town and beyond.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 12, 2017
Chris Christie, who could theoretically be president someday, is a monomaniac.
From Slate ● Jan. 7, 2015
No one wants the property; no one has any use for it; and no want ever existed which it was calculated to fill, except in the brain of the monomaniac who built it.
From The Arena Volume 18, No. 93, August, 1897 by Various
