Sample sentences for PSYCHOTIC

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Definition

one who suffers from a psychosis (any severe mental disorder in which contact with reality is lost or highly distorted)

a psychotic killer

She is borderline psychotic.
And what if he became as psychotic as Ben?
James Dashner -- The Maze Runner

psychotic = like someone who has lost contact with reality

He seems psychotic to me.
James Dashner -- The Maze Runner
Thomas couldn't imagine going out that way, but based on Ben's last moments, psychotically thrashing and spitting and screaming, he no longer doubted the importance of the Glade rule that no one should enter the Maze except Runners, and then only during the day.
James Dashner -- The Maze Runner
Everyone wants to offer me pillows: We are all laboring under a mass psychosis that my rape and miscarriage have left me forever achy and delicate.
Gillian Flynn -- Gone Girl
I showed Peter all the evidence that I had assembled, enough to prove in the eyes of the public that he was a psychotic killer.
Orson Scott Card -- Ender's Game
They whipped up such a psychotic fever that Tereza had been afraid that the crazed mob would do harm to Karenin.
Milan Kundera -- The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Whatever else he was—sociopathic, psychotic, homicidal—he was also a child.
Dean Koontz -- Sole Survivor
That's insane, and the most disturbing thing is, you don't even recognize that your explanation only makes you sound psychotic!
Nicholas Sparks -- The Lucky One
It appears to be a way station between neurosis and psychosis: a fractured but not disassembled psyche.
Susanna Kaysen -- Girl Interrupted
All had been examined prior to their trials, and found to be "without psychosis" and "sane."
Truman Capote -- In Cold Blood
But the bull appeared psychotic with rage, an animal out of control, and the bucking continued, fierce and unrelenting.
Nicholas Sparks -- The Longest Ride
Would someone in this room please tell me the exact hour when all my roommates had complete psychotic breaks with reality?
Pat Conroy -- The Lords of Discipline
We were scared—two hundred prisoners alone with one guard having a psychotic break.
Piper Kerman -- Orange Is the New Black
"Because," Simon said, "you're obviously psychotic."
Cassandra Clare -- City of Ashes
When I said us I meant the non-psychotic Oranges.
Alexandra Bracken -- The Darkest Minds
She might well be in the cold and sweatless meathooks of a psychosis.
Thomas Pynchon -- The Crying of Lot 49
Well, we were chained in a dungeon in Germany, my mother was a power-hungry, psychotic refrigerator, and my best friend and half my flock were MIA.
James Patterson -- Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports
Then he can get out of control and go into some, I don't know, area of psychosis where no one can reach him.
William Styron -- Sophie's Choice

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