Both Uses
demented
in
The Impossible Knife of Memory
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- I could barely hear the sweet, wet sound of exploding heads between his snoring, the irritating tick-tock of the cuckoo clock, and Trish whistling in the kitchen like a demented mockingbird.†
p. 273.6
- The demented soul who was my physical therapist laughed and high-fived me the first time I burst into tears when I was rehabbing my knee.†
p. 387.2 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(demented as in: demented lyrics) acting crazy
or:
suffering from cognitive dementia (mental deterioration) - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)