[ US /məˈnaɪəkəɫ/ ]
[ UK /mɐnˈa‍ɪ‍əkə‍l/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. wildly disordered
    a maniacal frenzy
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How To Use maniacal In A Sentence

  • To our no small surprise, very soon after this quietus had been given to bibliomaniacal hopes, the books in question appeared before us in excellent condition. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865
  • Jealous Liberal Journalists Attack Keith Olbermann yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Jealous Liberal Journalists Attack Keith Olbermann'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: Lookout Keith Olbermann: now that you are more popular than Bill O\'Reilly in the cable news Neilson ratings, you must confront an even bigger monster, an even more tenacious adversary, an egomaniacally superior life-species: establishment liberal journalists.' Jealous Liberal Journalists Attack Keith Olbermann
  • An egomaniacal celebrity author lives in Paris with his glamorous young second wife and his shy and unhappy grown-up daughter from his first marriage.
  • The cause of the mass below the surface was Times CEO Howell Raines, who had egomaniacally elbowed his way to the top. Egonomics
  • One does not need to be laboring under maniacal egomania to begin to believe oneself above it all.
  • These guys are inexplicably stupid, tone deaf, suicidal and egomaniacally blind to the wishes of the American people. Home/News
  • The real blame for the continuation in office of the increasingly megalomaniacal Maire lies with the Liberals.
  • His draw was so maniacally quick that he actually eliminated his targets before they could completely come into view.
  • In the third movement, Haitink's lucid communication of the music's textural contrasts made it a joy to listen to, and the violins’ cheeky acciaccaturas tinkled wholeheartedly from their instruments; the finale was brisk, with almost maniacal handfuls of semiquavers, and the trumpets were on top form.
  • Though cross-island expressways had been envisioned by the Regional Plan Association in the 1920s, it was in the postwar years that the megalomaniacal urban planner Robert Moses made Lomex — a proposed 200-foot-wide swath along Broome Street requiring the demolition of buildings housing at least 1,972 families and 804 businesses — the centerpiece of his vision to modernize New York. Indignation Superhighway
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