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paranoid

adjective as in affected by paranoia

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“One continues to wonder,” Buckley wrote, “how it is that the membership of the John Birch Society tolerates such paranoid and unpatriotic drivel.”

“In retrospect, it’s a bit of a pity, when we could have been discussing logistics and operations, but everyone was really paranoid,” the state official said.

The late British essayist Christopher Hitchens once described Pakistan as a “humorless, paranoid, insecure” nation.

Apple is more paranoid about privacy than Amazon or Google, though that means the HomePod mini isn’t as widely capable in the smart home — it still can’t operate things like the most popular doorbells and thermostats.

Those of us who live in a city are not sure about how paranoid to be.

“I was so paranoid that I would shred the receipts,” she said.

As for his harsh—some might even say paranoid—opposition to European integration, “most of us would support him.”

He became paranoid that his bride would be kidnapped, and told her to never go to the same place twice.

And in a culture as paranoid as ours, we freak out about them all the time.

He becomes increasingly paranoid by the societal fixtures around him—a ticking clock, a ringing phone.

But if you want to understand security, you need to consider the most paranoid possibilities.

Even if it's a paranoid constitutional inferior like Jimmy's father.

Then the paranoid symptoms appear; he imagines himself surrounded by envious enemies, who are conspiring against him.

Aside from this paranoid complex he had a complete left-sided functional hemiplegia with all the concomitant signs.

This group he again subdivides into the querulent and hallucinatory paranoid forms.

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

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