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/pˈæɹənˌɔɪd/
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[ US /ˈpɛɹəˌnɔɪd/ ]
[ US /ˈpɛɹəˌnɔɪd/ ]
NOUN
- a person afflicted with paranoia
ADJECTIVE
- suffering from paranoia
How To Use paranoid In A Sentence
- I am from the Jewish origin and I can talk a lot about Jewish trends including a paranoidal fear that 'someone will get us this time.' OpEdNews - Diary: Black Americans Don't Get It
- A couple of phone calls, arranged by a deep-sea diver I came to know while working on a story on the Miskito Coast of Nicaragua, led me to an alternately boastful and paranoidly surreptitious man named Steve. The Lampshade
- Yet his paranoid fear of plots and conspiracies beset him to the end of his life. The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
- As for the others, if I were them, I'd be grateful right now about the fact, as you so frequently and paranoidly assert, that the mainstream media "ignores" you. Liblogs News Feed
- At best, he's a vain, insecure man; at worst, he's a paranoid megalomaniac narcissist.
- My sense of Tiberius is that he was a bad emperor for the Roman elites in the capital, to whom he was a capricious, paranoid tyrant. Matthew Yglesias » What Would The Roman Empire Do?
- But they have made the pre-release process more paranoid than ever to no good effect that I can think of… other than the amusement of those who want to know everything and know it now.
- One person may function well in most areas of life, but be paranoid and hostile in certain circumstances.
- Yes, hoarding is often associated with Paranoid Schizophrenia. Of Shoes And Ships And Sealing Wax And Hoarding Stuff And Things | Her Bad Mother
- Stone and Parker are unafraid of lampooning both paranoid megalomania and the inane platitudes of Hollywood superstars.