paranoid
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Vienna at the time was intellectually exhilarating and politically perilous, a place of astonishing scholarship and higher learning that also functioned as “the world capital of cranks, paranoids, megalomaniacs and conspiracy theorists,” Budiansky writes.
From New York Times • Jun. 2, 2021
That's why these contemporary prophets are not delusional conspiracy theorists, or simply paranoids.
From Salon • Sep. 19, 2020
“We are called primitives, xenophobes, paranoids, racists. We are even called populists,” he said to laughter.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 4, 2020
“It seemed inconceivable that an anti-establishment gadfly like Goldwater could be nominated,” Buckley recalled: Thereby proving the dictum that even paranoids have enemies.
From The Wall Street Journal • Aug. 17, 2015
Of course, Bobby’s fears were thought by some to be incipient paranoia, and although it was highly unlikely that the KGB was plotting against him, even paranoids can have real enemies.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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