How To Use Deranged In A Sentence

A steady stream of self-released mix tapes and videos - all adhering to the group's cartoonishly horrifying aesthetic, all a bit more deranged than the rest - increased the buzz and kept the conversation going. In concert: OFWGKTA at U Street Music Hall
The Latin American brotherhood was a pretty awful in general, coming out of some deranged ideas of Simon Bolivar, and it was an extraordinarily awful thing during the Cold War. Matthew Yglesias » Carter on Gaza
The selections this week include reflections on the Meath bus crash, Conor Lenihan as a kebab chef, a Star Wars horoscope, cyberstalking, and deranged art.
He also sends his friend Dr. Lefebre, an observant alienist, to check on the emotional well being of the distraught Lucy whose aunts insist she is deranged. A Mortal Curiosity-Ann Granger « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews
Critics and fellow writers admired them, but grew increasingly weary with the deranged self-consciousness of it all. Times, Sunday Times

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However, there is a distinct possibility that I am slightly deranged, so it could just be me that looks at life that way.
She was known for choosing the most difficult assignments, caring for the terminally ill and even the deranged patients that often were brought in straitjackets.
The boy was from a good family but he was deranged in some way: he wouldn't eat, he quarrelled with everyone, and he refused to go out to work.
It's just a phenomenal portrait of a deranged mind. Times, Sunday Times
They took her into hospital because she was mentally deranged.
I probably looked like a deranged traveler obsessed with authority figures.
Critics and fellow writers admired them, but grew increasingly weary with the deranged self-consciousness of it all. Times, Sunday Times
Willoughby, an attention-seeking hyperactive child, was, by his mid to late teens, violently deranged.
If chargers move through Fanatics they have not already encountered then they sustain more damage as they hit the deranged Goblins.
So we spent the best part of 2 hours running around the house screaming like crazed banshees, dodging (in my case not very successfully) my deranged older brother.
We think they are mean and very slightly deranged. Times, Sunday Times
This is to stick in your mouth to stop you from screaming like a deranged fan.
In this connection I desire to make a statement which may come as a surprise to many, and that is this: I have but lately -- within the past few days, in fact -- been informed that among persons addicted to the vice of slang the term nut is occasionally applied to other persons whom they suspect of being mentally incapable or, in short, deranged. Fibble, D.D.
A delirious convention was taking place, a deranged banquet of the fathoms. RUSHING TO PARADISE
Imagine going home to your family and friends and being told you were deranged!
Well I'm glad that's the only reason you're staring at me like I'm mentally deranged.
This is a deranged concept leading an innocent man to do horrific tasks in grotesque detail, and it puts it all in first person. EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Some skinny on the actual play of Manhunt 2
His unhinged language suggested that persecution mania briefly deranged him.
The most quiet and reserved people may become deranged loudmouths when they sit behind the keyboard, staying up until dawn and conducting angry debates on discussion boards with total strangers.
People who knew Backhouse described him variously as "gelatinous," "deranged" and "the most remarkable scoundrel ever known in the Far East, which is saying a lot. Portrait of a Silver-Tongued Deceiver
I cursed some more, managed to staunch the flow, hopped around like a deranged Morris dancer until I could reach a plaster, patched myself up and went back to bed.
My family refused to stand anywhere near me, causing the few other tourists to believe I was just a solo deranged wildlife pesterer. NewWest.Net All Headlines
Certainly, I was struck by the combination of her screeching voice and deranged facial expression, her general state of undress being more disturbing than arousing.
Or have deranged boosters and desperate civic organizations hellbent on reviving the local economy threatened to break journalists' legs if they leave some jerkwater dump off the list of the 10 Best Places to Spend Your Golden Years? Ten Best Places to Read About Silly Lists
The play is tidily constructed around the absurd situation, in which Margot's deranged student, Molly (played with winning gawkiness by Anna Maxwell Martin), blames Margot for the suicide of her mother, who jumped under a train, Anna Karenina style, holding a copy of Margot's feminist bible, "The Cerebral Vagina. Wyndham Lewis's Unusual Angle on Art
Imagine going home to your family and friends and being told you were deranged!
He said that he didn't match his image of a deranged maniac - he was very clean-cut.
There are no derange liberals posting here, they are very astute observers of a very deranged woman that the right wing wackadoodles seem to have put up on a pedestal. In Eugene, Palin says she eats granola too
So I think you are simply an irrational bigot, who hates, hates, hates, without any particular distinctions or variation all those who, in your deranged mind, dare to “oppose” your ideologies by not pliantly following the self-serving, hypocrtical, insane creeds of the members of your “in” group of your social circle. Think Progress » POLL: Active Duty U.S. Soldiers Disapprove Of Bush Handling Of War, Do Not Support Escalation
Deranged, self serving, sexually driven and yet likeable Wayne Ogden is our unscrupulous procurer and criminal ready to triumph with his blackmail schemes and the like. Carole Mallory: Review: The Adjustment by Scott Phillips
Hence, while they wouldn't blink an eye at half-inching a Nana Mouskouri vocal sample, or appearing as deranged doctors for The Everlasting Blink album, their musical map has always directed them down the road less well travelled.
As when an individual soldier lost his balance, many flailing and falling soldiers deranged the enemy formation causing a serious decrease in the enemy's own firepower.
You again confuse not wishing to provoke a nuclear conflict with a deranged dictatorship as approval for same. Think Progress » Hume: A Preemptive Strike on North Korea Would Be a ‘Successful Strategy’
The thick black hands flamed with an eerie blue sheen in the low light of the bridge, and dark green eyes glowed with a deranged luminescence from deep-set pits under the gunner's brow.
In other patients, the genes preparing neurofilament proteins that support the nerve fibers are deranged.
Let's say that the person you are competing against in the California GOP Senate primary releases a political advertisement that is expensive and deranged, with fake sheep crawling around with lite-brite eyes in a field, and a terrible, malformed metaphor that actually insults the fiscal conservatives whom everyone wants to win over. Luckily For Carly Fiorina's 'Demon Sheep' Ad, Her Competitors' Responses Have Been Terrible
Police officials said that the youth appeared to be mentally deranged or spiritually overridden.
In Mr. Kirsch's telling, it is more like Mr. Holifield has interestingly presented the deranged notes that a batty aunt in the attic kept in a shoebox.
Her mind is not deranged, it has just regressed into that of one without advanced mental capacities.
He had me spluttering with laughter all the way with his schoolboy comedy but left our German guest convinced that he was possibly deranged. Times, Sunday Times
They have to deal with violent deranged crack heads, not peaceful potheads?
Privately, she wondered if they were watching her to see if she would have a breakdown or if she was mentally deranged or something, but she said nothing to that effect.
Sometimes a person can go so far out that you have difficulty knowing whether their views are wrong-headed only or actually deranged.
A deranged angry woman disrupting a meeting is "plucky" and "stands up for herself". If "every campaign is... a narrative," what's Hillary Clinton's narrative?
I am sure that if you signed up to a mailing list for any other non-political interest group you would soon find it dominated by the rantings of deranged nutters and/or other obsessives.
The situations Abe deals in do not raise epistemological or existential questions; they are deranged treatments of metaphysics.
They start by telling you the man was crazy or deranged and conclude by saying he was a liar.
He had me spluttering with laughter all the way with his schoolboy comedy but left our German guest convinced that he was possibly deranged. Times, Sunday Times
Giving a whole new meaning to the term fanatic, this deranged devotee and No 1 fan of a romance-novel writer (James Caan), holds him against his will, forces a rewrite of the protagonist's fate and then sledgehammers his legs so he can't escape from her. TODAYonline
There was something demented and deranged about him, a little dark, a little disturbing, that actually scared her.
As he becomes increasingly deranged, so the book gets more and more preposterous. Times, Sunday Times
Tennis is the game of the gentle people, the game so prim, so historical… so deranged.
Jordan looked at his wife, as if she was deranged.
‘People who lived on the streets due to the abuse of drugs, were not mentally deranged but possessed by demons,’ he said.
Men over 60 tend to react as if you are slightly deranged to consider such a radical thing. Times, Sunday Times
And I never dared to ask my parents or teacher for fear of being termed mentally deranged.
The psychologist concluded that the soldier was deranged, and wrote out his discharge from the army.
For, demented as he is, he is sublimely unaware that he is deranged.
Meanwhile, police based on preliminary investigation ruled out the possibility of him being mentally deranged.
Joe - black skullcap, five red spikes sprouting like a deranged cockscomb from ear to ear - had spent the night at Sam's house.
The recent terrorist attacks in Norway by a deranged man who harbored anti-Muslim sentiments and sympathized with far right wing anti-immigrant political ideologies has brought this crisis once again to the surface. Daniel Tutt: What Would Nietzsche Say About Europe's Islam Crisis?
A deranged old lady with totally messed up hair walked around shouting at everybody else.
She also has a deranged stalker and is being used by a white supremacy group to furthersome members’bizarre conspiracy theories. Color commentary? : Bev Vincent
These are not the deranged ramblings of an alcoholic lolling at a bus-stop.
His deranged dare devilishness has earned him a wealth of fans and now, the opportunity to kick Paul Hogan in his Hollywood daks.
It was a horrible thing, a terrible thing, which could have deranged anybody in my opinion.
When we consider, as Lord Bacon observes, speaking of common diseases, that "all wise physicians in the prescription, of their regimen to their patients, do ever consider accidentia animi, as of great force to further or hinder remedies or recoveries;" it is difficult to account for the general neglect of moral considerations in the treatment of deranged mind. A Psychiatric Milestone Bloomingdale Hospital Centenary, 1821-1921
When we talked to that deranged hobo in the park who looked kind of like Dr. Phil, you said you'd do anything to save our friendship.
People who knew Backhouse described him variously as "gelatinous," "deranged" and "the most remarkable scoundrel ever known in the Far East, which is saying a lot. Portrait of a Silver-Tongued Deceiver
The Consortium is attempting to label you as a deranged rogue who hijacked an armed ship.
Her skin was pale and seemed as thin as parchment after years of confinement in the windowless basement prison of the deranged handyman Priklopil. Times, Sunday Times
The actor playing the crazed counselor is so downright deranged in his performance you feel dirty watching him.
The Sunday Washington Post's Book World section carries an incredibly sane review of a hilariously deranged book on obesity.
Your aid in underscoring my sterling character is appreciated - so please do - with all honesty - SAVE ME FROM THIS DERANGED MAN!!! September 2006
The death cult strikes again, unstoppable in its deranged religious mania.
The deranged mind responsible leaves clues, both mystical and musical. Times, Sunday Times
Apparently, it was “irrational” or “deranged” to attribute motives to them, clearly inferable from their actions, that they had not admitted. Matthew Yglesias » A Substantive Post About the Issues
In person he is neither deranged nor canine, but softly spoken and erudite. Times, Sunday Times
But his dropsical face, looming from the billboards in Libya's cities, has grown more mournful and deranged as the political structures he conjured up have degenerated. Libya: Gaddafi's destructive path | Editorial
No wonder I am deranged and will probably have to spend a big portion of my adult earnings in therapy.
In this regard, it does not take a deranged imagination to see a potential train wreck developing in muni finance; faltering finances, mushrooming underfunded pension liabilities, and huge borrowing needs for as far as the eye can see.
Of course we must protect our writers and cartoonists from deranged fundamentalists, but we are not faultless ourselves.
Not only do men and women abnormally crave drink, who are overworked, exhausted, suffering from deranged stomachs and bad sanitation, and deadened by the ugliness and monotony of existence, but the gregarious men and women who have no home-life flee to the bright and clattering public-house in a vain attempt to express their gregariousness. DRINK, TEMPERANCE, AND THRIFT
They all sink into the lowest class of religions mendicants, or retainers; or live among their friends as drones upon the land; while the manufacturing, trading, and commercial industry that provided them with the comforts, conveniences, and elegancies of life while they were in a higher grade of service is in its turn thrown out of employment; and the whole frame of society becomes, for a time, deranged by the local diminution in the demand _for the services of men and the produce of their industry_. Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official
Karl rove is a deranged twisted freak of a pathological liar who comes from a very twisted pathological family background. Think Progress » Rove Backs Off His Criticism Of Counterterrorism Center, Perhaps Remembering Chief Is A Bush Holdover
On the one hand, she paints a convincing portrait of Gribble as a deeply disturbed and increasingly deranged individual.
A deranged cat poisoner is suspected of spreading terror among pet lovers in Bridgwater, Somerset, in the west of England.
It's just a phenomenal portrait of a deranged mind. Times, Sunday Times
These are all written by the same potentially deranged person.
The group kicked proceedings off, squeezing their way into hormonally deranged teen hearts, with a crisp and punchy pop-punk-pounce.
In person he is neither deranged nor canine, but softly spoken and erudite. Times, Sunday Times
For some reason, that had me laughing in a deranged fashion for about ten minutes straight.
I was so deranged that I actually considered getting therapy for myself.
From the CEOs to the bolt-turners on the assembly line, from powertrain engineers to your humble reviewer—he said, adjusting his poodle skirt—we're all slightly but measurably tetch'd, meshuggeneh, deranged. The Best Sports Car, and Why to Skip It
I keep trying to imagine how I'll bring it up to the doctor without a deranged look in my eye.
She is mentally deranged.
You are seriously deranged if you think I'm going to walk thirty miles!
The bel canto opera repertoire is most closely associated with Bellini's deranged heroines and Donizetti's game gamines.
Even today it's edgy cinema, but to write it off as the product of a deranged mind, or to suggest that it endorses the violence it depicts, is simple-minded at best.
Accordingly Oram encases the vast garden-jungle set inside a circular drum, implying that Williams's characters are themselves deranged solitaries.
Interestingly, even the mentally deranged humans are rational if not sensible.
In person he is neither deranged nor canine, but softly spoken and erudite. Times, Sunday Times
The first example given for "derange" in the OED that fits the meaning "to disorder the mind of, unsettle the reason of" is from 1825 "The trouble which our youth was thought to bear With such indifference hath deranged his head. Slumgullion #36 -- The deranged killer edition
It was an enormous humiliation and Galileo was left a broken man, almost mentally deranged by the months of pressure.
Even today it's edgy cinema, but to write it off as the product of a deranged mind, or to suggest that it endorses the violence it depicts, is simple-minded at best.
To be more specific, this is a small, character driven dissection, a brief journey into the mind of a deranged serial killer.
Maybe it's just some psychotic or bored and deranged person making a prank call.
All racial hatred is deranged. Times, Sunday Times
As the president, his staff and, most significantly, his frequently deranged First Lady pussyfooted around the paneled rooms of his West Coast ranch compound, eavesdropping on each other and then communicating in whispers the latest fragment of update, it began to feel like one of those Kurosawa dramas about feudal lords -- the Macbeth-based Throne of Blood, say, courtesy of FOX. Tom Gliatto: Beyond 24
Then again, this article was basically one long deranged advertisement for his shows.
The score is stridently overdramatic; the camerawork deranged. Times, Sunday Times
My alarm sounded Monday morning, as usual, bringing me out of my slumber with a series of deranged, high-pitched beeps.
Also, it could be why he is deranged now, since he obviously isn't on the medication.
The father got custody of her because the mother is mentally deranged and the police think that this girl is in grave harm.
Gabrielle Cummins is also utterly believable as the deranged beggar woman and her excellent performance is matched by great make up and costuming.
I like him posessive, deranged, amused, sobbing ... but dammit, I will NOT have him turned into a sweet little PC boy who is only fierce and dominant when he thinks his 'subbie' wants him to be. Jaxraven Diary Entry
She keeps grinning and gurning at me like she's deranged, like she's going to murder me or something.
Today, the poet wants to compose a pantoum about the Mariel exodus, about his voyage from Cuba to Key West on a tugboat piloted by deranged exiles. The Lady Matador’s Hotel
For them, the settling of scores with the miners developed into an obsession bordering on the deranged.
Our family affairs are rather deranged at present, for Nanny has kept her bed these three or four days, with a pain in her side and fever, and we are forced to have two charwomen, which is not very comfortable. she is considerably better now, but it must still be some time, I suppose, before she is able to do anything. Jane Austen's Letters To Her Sister Cassandra and Others
His alarmed expression reflected how deranged I must have looked, with my crayoned eyes, shiny face, and hair styled by Cuisinart. RUNNING FROM THE LAW
To make him the foil and flip-side of his own deranged killer for the purposes of a cutesy rhetorical flourish is obscene. Will Saletan’s Moderation
We need to get away from the idea that the only people bound by demons are mentally deranged madmen.
And then, in an instant, it had all been taken away by a deranged fan with a knife. Times, Sunday Times
As he becomes increasingly deranged, so the book gets more and more preposterous. Times, Sunday Times
The stability of the solar system would not be deranged in ages to come.
It's the usual deranged and distempered prose, except there's something rather amusing this time: Richard throws in a few rants about ‘mini nukes’.
Sometimes a person can go so far out that you have difficulty knowing whether their views are wrong-headed only or actually deranged.
And they cater to the deranged grin fetishes of retired colonels from the home counties.
Access to the cash that power brings, completely deranged and satisfying “investigations” that both dehumanize the opposition and give that warm fuzzy feeling of standing up for “principle” (no one is above the law — even, or especially those who have done nothing in its violation) and, best of all, they get to go on demolishing any hope of using government power to solve any actual problem out there. Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Search and destroy
In scoliosis, the anatomy is deranged not only at each vertebral level but also between the convex and concave sides of the curve in the spine.
The White House physician, who was not a psychiatrist, did describe Coolidge in his unpublished autobiography as being mentally unbalanced and mentally deranged.
Bad karma is stalking me like a deranged fan.
He has continued to press calmly forward despite almost deranged hatred radiating from enemies.
Death and its hideous aftermath can come at the hands and blackened teeth of reanimated corpses or the deranged, power hungry gun muzzle of a fellow survivor.
But we cannot afford to withdraw a million male adults who have passed a strictish health test from the work of parentage for several years unless we intend to breed our next generation from parents with short sight, varicose veins, rotten teeth, and deranged internal organs. New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index
I Party All the TimeJon King: A rocking guitar riff heisted from Andy's vault of genius licks takes us on a journey to nowhere ? a deranged town where if only we stay schtum it'll all be all right. Gang of Four: free EP download
They took her into hospital because she was mentally deranged.
A mild-mannered virgin businessman turned into a ‘deranged sex maniac’ under the influence of prescribed drugs, the High Court was told yesterday.
Abnormal sperm morphology - an indicator of deranged sperm production or maturation - is also associated with reduced fertilising capacity.
Sometimes you encounter leftist paranoia so utterly deranged, so shamelessly depraved, you don't know wether to laugh or cry.
I Party All the TimeJon King: A rocking guitar riff heisted from Andy's vault of genius licks takes us on a journey to nowhere ? a deranged town where if only we stay schtum it'll all be all right. Gang of Four: free EP download
We think they are mean and very slightly deranged. Times, Sunday Times
She did not mock the quasi-Maoist and wholly deranged ramblings of his Green Book – "according to gynaecologists, women, unlike men, menstruate each month", is a typical example of Gaddafian prose. Lord Woolf's conflict of interest at the LSE | Nick Cohen
The deranged mind responsible leaves clues, both mystical and musical. Times, Sunday Times
She was present when the deranged former boyfriend of one of her children attacked her family with two guns.
Consequently, I babbled like a deranged lunatic, and it wasn't pretty.
Nero bids me say, not to feel hurt should he show little joy at seeing you, as his digestion is all deranged since he has been here, with the constant crumbs of "suet and plums" that fall to/his/share. New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
Someone really should have cut every scene of Affleck jogging in the red costume, pumping his arms with his billy club in one hand and looking for all the world like a deranged relay runner.
Her costume changes - including fetish boots and a military cap for ‘Pure Pleasure Seeker’ - have the deranged playfulness of a girl riffling through a dressing-up box.
His unhinged language suggested that persecution mania briefly deranged him.
Autosomal genes often showed deranged regulatory levels, indicating they were in pathways perturbed by X chromosomal changes.
During this period many of the friends of the individual affected supposed him to be only very eccentric; while some, who had opportunities of observing him closely, were convinced that he was deranged.
The world into which you are graduating is a deranged world. April 11th, 2009
On the second, swelling of the whole foot, and about the ankle erythema, with distention, and small bullae (phlyctaenae); acute fever; he became furiously deranged; alvine discharges bilious, unmixed, and rather frequent. Of The Epidemics
Her captor is a deranged man named Moses, looking to satisfy his burning desire to kill. Image Comics Sneak Peek of the Week | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News
And then, in an instant, it had all been taken away by a deranged fan with a knife. Times, Sunday Times
Random, senseless death at the hands of a deranged, homicidal maniac is a terrible tragedy. Matthew Yglesias » Most Dangerous?
The predatory antiheroine who steals a small fortune becomes the prey, while the meek victim of an innkeeper is revealed to be a deranged murderer. My Year of Flops
My memory was deranged because of the new program.
Carline ran past them, gesturing like a deranged magician at the sea. RUSHING TO PARADISE
With all due respect, this loonie's rampage is only international news because it's a Jewish organization that was shot up by a deranged guy who happened to be a lousy Muslim. Sound Politics: Jeff Jacoby In P-I On "Sudden Jihad Syndrome" In Seattle
It reminded me of nothing quite so much as one of those slightly deranged, wide-eyed tramps whom you might see standing in the middle of the pavement, reading aloud from a torn-up newspaper after he's gulped down a few too many swigs of meths.
It is well known that everything is miraculous in the history of the Jews; the miracle performed in favor of King Hezekiah on the dial of Ahaz is one of the greatest that ever took place: it is evident that the whole earth must have been deranged, the course of the stars changed forever, and the periods of the eclipses of the sun and moon so altered as to confuse all the ephemerides. A Philosophical Dictionary
In 1634 a Portuguese noblewoman, presumably deranged by devotion, bit off the little toe of St Francis's right foot.
And if you're deranged enough to forgo the spa treatments and the excuse to not wear real clothes for two days, there's golf, horse riding and mountain-biking on offer nearby.
Some of the people in the computer room were glancing at me like I was deranged.
Men over 60 tend to react as if you are slightly deranged to consider such a radical thing. Times, Sunday Times
The U.S. media is sick and deranged, but for some reason surviving the derangement is a presidential test. Debate: ABC News Was Mean to the Messiah
Her words, he said, were inaccurate, dishonest and verging on the deranged.

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