neurotic
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Germany is uniquely neurotic about debt and about unsound money.
From BBC • Mar. 27, 2026
She was one of many authors he wrangled—alcoholic William Faulkner, neurotic Dr. Seuss, industrious James Michener, imperious Philip Roth.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026
And while Jerry’s perfectionism had a toll on their creative process, it also fueled it, making way for more neurotic characters that Anne could play straight against.
From Salon • Oct. 18, 2025
She’s all but doomed to be bourgeois and neurotic, as if a juvenile court has sentenced her to live in a New Yorker cartoon.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 3, 2025
It’s Saturday and the time has come to leave my free lodgings and neurotic avian roommate.
From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
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