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
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
Unable to talk, unable to move, she is obviously a serious mental case, an ideal subject for Eminent Psychiatrist Vincent Price, who soon bustles up, brisk and professional.
From Time Magazine Archive
He tries it on his wife's obstetrician, who at first thinks Joseph a mental case, then takes fire himself.
From Time Magazine Archive
Tell her I want her to get three women of the right sort to take charge of a mental case which is coming to my nursing home.
From Jack O' Judgment by Wallace, Edgar
