[ US /ˌɪnˈseɪn/ ]
[ UK /ɪnsˈe‍ɪn/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. afflicted with or characteristic of mental derangement
    was declared insane
    insane laughter
  2. very foolish
    harebrained ideas
    a completely mad scheme to build a bridge between two mountains
    took insane risks behind the wheel
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How To Use insane In A Sentence

  • Mum has been a lot more cheerful since Quigley was declared bankrupt, insane and guilty of fraud.
  • I've had an insanely busy day here, and I was listening to the latest album but it was just making me kind of listless and spacy.
  • What they have "incentivized" executives to do, in countless cases, is not to perform, but to game the system, to smooth the numbers, to take insane risks with other people's money, to do whatever had to be done to ring the bell and send the dollars coursing their way into the designated bank account. Let's Move Their Cheese
  • For the tumblebug was sincere in his insane doings, and all Philistia honored him sincerely, so that there was nowhere any hope for this people. Jurgen A Comedy of Justice
  • He is a slightly possessed, haunted, eccentric man; his enemies prefer to say ' insane '.
  • I will not be there with a £180 ticket to be biffed into kingdom come by some insane person on the end of a weighted rope - or falling off it - but good luck to those who come to brave the 2 chords of U2 at warp volume and other truffles of this cultural feast. Bono and The Edge defend Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark
  • The program started off ascetically with "Six Studies in English Folksong" which the program warned us were "very melancholic," continued with a song cycle for violin and tenor called "Along the Field" to poems by A.E. Houseman, and finished off the first half with insanely Pre-Raphaelite lushness to a song cycle set to Dante Gabriel Rosetti poems called "The House of Life. Thomas Glenn Sings Vaughan Williams
  • He took to antiquarianism, which is a sort of philtre, driving its votaries mildly insane, and filling them with emotions which, on the whole, are probably more often happy than grievous. Hawthorne and His Circle
  • I know that some academics regard conferences as the one or two times a year that they're fully able to reimmerse themselves in their field and reconnect with their scholarly community--and that's probably true, to some degree, for all of us, whether we're at research institutions that support colloquia and reading groups in our field or whether we're at teaching institutions with insanely heavy teaching loads and rarely publish. Archive 2007-02-01
  • To return to the screen with this love and support is absolutely insane.
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