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We are ultrarunners, backcountry skiers, parents to neurotic dogs.

After Monday’s column on my dog Archie’s separation anxiety, I think I could assemble an entire pack of neurotic pooches.

For instance, firstborn children in this data set might be a little more cautious, but they were also less neurotic than later-born children.

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I was also fearful of failure, neurotic, a perfectionist, ambitious—undoubtedly to the point of being unbearable.

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With a narrative whipsawing among four neurotic protagonists, “Paradise, Nevada” charts a collision course through the gaming industry, grappling with Vegas’s objectifying entertainment complex and accelerating tech sphere.

It was quite interesting, its title was Rejoice That You Are Neurotic.

As a result, Akerman said CrowdMed may appeal to the more neurotic of us who wish to be “armchair physicians.”

In the early 1900s, Sigmund Freud began to explore in earnest the similarities between neurotic behavior and ritual.

You give the weakest and the worst interpretation of my devotion: the neurotic one.

Equal parts compassionate and neurotic, Farmiga plays Norma with an intense level of adrenaline.

Here is my pet theory of the gouty origin of neurasthenia and perhaps Beard's neurotic constitution, beloved of rhinologists.

Neurotic tendencies which unfit women for marriage—the desire for domination.

Sexual anæsthesia another neurotic trait which interferes with marital harmony.

She glared at him with the wild look that frequently comes to the hysterical or neurotic woman's eyes.

The condition is probably of neurotic origin and tends to recur.

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On this page you'll find 49 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to neurotic, such as: compulsive, distraught, disturbed, manic, obsessive, and aberrant.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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