paranoidin a sentencegrouped by contextual meaning
paranoid used casually
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Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.
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paranoid = excessively suspicious that others want to harm you
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Don't be paranoid. She doesn't even know you.
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"You're paranoid," I say. "The leaders of the Dauntless wouldn't kill me. People don't do that." (source)paranoid = excessively fearful
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He wondered if Zigzag was just being paranoid. (source)paranoid = excessively suspicious or fearful
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Was I paranoid to think that when she'd said human beings, what she really meant was me? (source)paranoid = excessively suspicious or fearful
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He was seized with paranoia. "You win war, and you make all Japanese like black slaves!" he shouted at a POW. (source)paranoia = excessive fear
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Paranoids, every single one!† (source)
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I remembered the walls made of grain sacks and ammunition boxes, of my father's fears and paranoias, his scriptures and prophecies. (source)paranoias = excessive fears
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"I'm telling you," Grant said. "Paranoid." (source)Paranoid = excessively suspicious or fearful
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Hundreds of cages hung from the ceiling, with several seekers in each of them: Redd's bloodhounds, bred out of her distrust and paranoia; creatures with bird-of-prey bodies and the heads of blood-sucking insects. (source)paranoia = excessive fear of others
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Paranoids, schizoids, cycloids, semicatatonics, men who claimed to have gone to heaven in flying saucers, women who had burned their children's sex organs off with Bic lighters, alcoholics, pyromaniacs, kleptomaniacs, manic-depressives, suicidals.† (source)
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All those years I was passing in and out of her kitchen, and she never told me what it had been like for her, watching her daughter shut herself away, walled in by phantoms and paranoias. (source)paranoias = excessive fears
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Paranoid, Rudy took the plate in just the one hand and wiped with the other. (source)Paranoid = feeling excessive fear
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"Nothing ever likes to die — even a room. I wonder if it hates me for wanting to switch it off?" "Paranoia is thick around here today," said David McClean. (source)Paranoia = excessive fear or suspicion that others want to harm you
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paranoid used clinically
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She was diagnosed with paranoid personality disorder.
paranoid = relating to a disorder in which one is excessively distrustful of others
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Excessive or prolonged use of the drug can cause paranoid delusions.
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It was perhaps in another such fit of paranoia that Dad fired my mother's sister Angie. (source)paranoia = excessive fear that others want to harm you
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Bob actually looked a little nervous, which I was later told was paranoia. (source)paranoia = a psychological disorder characterized by excessive distrust of others
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In a civilized world where there are laws, banks, and supermarkets, being a paranoid schizophrenic is a major problem. (source)paranoid = someone suffering from a psychological disorder characterized by excessive distrust of others
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The irony was that if Dad was bipolar—or had any of a dozen disorders that might explain his behavior—the same paranoia that was a symptom of the illness would prevent its ever being diagnosed and treated. (source)paranoia = excessive fear that others want to harm you
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And the homeless lady, a paranoid schizophrenic, who would lie down on a pew as if on a park bench -- the church authorities had finally decided they had to throw her out. (source)paranoid = someone suffering from a psychological disorder characterized by excessive distrust of others
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I was sitting in Psychology 101 when the professor read the symptoms aloud from the overhead screen: depression, mania, paranoia, euphoria, delusions of grandeur and persecution. (source)paranoia = excessive fear that others want to harm you
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But I see no evidence whatsoever that she is schizophrenic or suffering from paranoid delusions. (source)paranoid = relating to a disorder characterized by excessive distrust of others
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I reached for some explanation and strange words came to mind, words I'd learned only minutes before: paranoia, mania, delusions of grandeur and persecution. (source)paranoia = excessive fear that others want to harm you
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Then a series of notes claiming that Salander was paranoid and a schizophrenic. (source)paranoid = someone suffering from a psychological disorder characterized by excessive distrust of others
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My parents were one of the largest employers in the county, but from what I could tell Dad's mental state made it difficult for him to maintain employees long-term: when he had a fit of paranoia, he tended to fire people with little cause. (source)paranoia = excessive fear that others want to harm you
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Its very existence confirms all documentary evidence that she is a paranoid schizophrenic. (source)paranoid = someone suffering from a psychological disorder characterized by excessive distrust of others
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He assumes that my client is a paranoid schizophrenic and mentally ill in every sense. (source)
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