Sample Sentences for
deranged
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deranged as in:  a deranged madman

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The deranged woman was ranting and raving on the street corner.
deranged = mentally imbalanced
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    The deranged killer had a twisted view of reality.
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    Black is deranged, Molly, and he wants Harry dead.  (source)
    deranged = crazy
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    She looked at him as if he were deranged.  (source)
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    I told her what I remembered and asked her, bluntly, if I was deranged.  (source)
    deranged = crazy
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    Dr. Jordan was of the added opinion that this other self gave strong manifestations of its continued existence during her period of mental derangement in 1852, if the eyewitness reports of Mrs. Moodie and others are any indication.†  (source)
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    If an old man may be forgiven his blunt speech, let me say that grief can derange even the strongest and most disciplined of minds, and the Lady Lysa was never that.†  (source)
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    Maybe they were fighting or maybe it was the deranging effects of this apartment.†  (source)
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    She is not rich, but offers such and such little recompenses for the little cares and derangements of such services; and I graciously—to do everything graciously is a part of my character—consent to accept them.†  (source)
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    He stormed and frothed, seeming completely deranged.  (source)
    deranged = crazy (out of control)
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    That he had been from the time of Greenhill Fair until the fatal Christmas Eve in excited and unusual moods was known to those who had been intimate with him; but nobody imagined that there had shown in him unequivocal symptoms of the mental derangement which Bathsheba and Oak, alone of all others and at different times, had momentarily suspected.†  (source)
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    The quality of her clothes threatened to derange Frieda and me.†  (source)
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    This deranging flash came to her even before the Gestapo agents—half a dozen or more—clambered onto the car and ordered everyone down to the street.†  (source)
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    I can hear myself-I'm mumbling like a deranged drunk.  (source)
    deranged = mentally imbalanced
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deranged as in:  deranged hair

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The room was deranged with clothes strewn all over the floor and food spilled on the bed.
deranged = in disorder
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    She slipped on a bathrobe, ran fingers through her deranged hair, and answered the door.
    deranged = disordered
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    I was anxious and slept badly, but when Mother came home the next morning, hair deranged and dark circles under her eyes, her lips were parted in a wide smile.  (source)
    deranged = in disorder
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    Then new arrivals deranged the line, and Jordan and I were pushed suddenly inside.  (source)
    deranged = upset
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    She was wild to be at home—to hear, to see, to be upon the spot to share with Jane in the cares that must now fall wholly upon her, in a family so deranged, a father absent, a mother incapable of exertion, and requiring constant attendance; and though almost persuaded that nothing could be done for Lydia, her uncle's interference seemed of the utmost importance, and till he entered the room her impatience was severe.  (source)
    deranged = in disorder
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    He then took me into his laboratory and explained to me the uses of his various machines, instructing me as to what I ought to procure and promising me the use of his own when I should have advanced far enough in the science not to derange their mechanism.  (source)
    derange = upset
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    No one knew me, for I disguised my voice, and no one dreamed of the silent, haughty Miss March (for they think I am very stiff and cool, most of them, and so I am to whippersnappers) could dance and dress, and burst out into a 'nice derangement of epitaphs, like an allegory on the banks of the Nile'.  (source)
    derangement = disorderly arrangement
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    "How very easily alarmed you are!" he answered, removing his cloak and hanging it up against the door, towards which he again coolly pushed the mat which his entrance had deranged.  (source)
    deranged = put in disorder
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    Hannah was out of humor because her week's work was deranged, and prophesied that "ef the washin' and ironin' warn't done reg'lar, nothin' would go well anywheres".  (source)
    deranged = upset
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