Sample Sentences forneurotic (editor-reviewed)
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She has a neurotic obsession with cleanliness.neurotic = excessively concern
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Don't let neurotics dictate what's done.neurotics = people with mild mental disorders
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Her neurotic fear of heights prevented her from enjoying the breathtaking view from the skyscraper’s observation deck.neurotic = excessive worry about
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If children are neurotic at all, a room like that — (source)neurotic = mentally disturbed
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If the queen were smarter, she would probably be hopelessly neurotic. (source)
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Edwards regarded climbing as a "psycho-neurotic tendency"; he climbed not for sport but to find refuge from the inner torment that framed his existence. (source)
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When Dussel is talking about Mrs. van D., he invariably calls her "that old bat" or "that stupid hag," and conversely, Mrs. van D. refers to our ever so learned gentleman as an "old maid" or a "touchy neurotic spinster," etc. The pot calling the kettle black! (source)neurotic = mentally disturbed
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It appears to be a way station between neurosis and psychosis: a fractured but not disassembled psyche.† (source)
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I felt like myself when I was with him, whereas I was always trying to hide my neuroses around Toby. (source)neuroses = mild mental disorders
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Advanced neurotics can be dazzling at that game.† (source)
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It was like struggling with some crushing physical task, something which one had the right to refuse and which one was nevertheless neurotically anxious to accomplish. (source)neurotically = in a manner that indicates being mentally disturbed
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I am neurotic. (source)neurotic = mildly mentally disturbed -- usually worrying too much about something
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I looked at my watch; it was four o'clock, but neither of us was ready to sleep, for in that city there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.† (source)
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Negroes don't have much neuroses, do they?† (source)
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You're not a country at all, you're not a government, you're a fifthrate dictatorship of political neurotics.† (source)
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After her transformation, Hanna had been neurotically careful about not only looking cool and perfect at all times, but being cool and perfect, too.† (source)
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