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madman
[ mad-man, -muhn ]
noun
- a person who is or behaves as if insane; lunatic; maniac.
madman
/ ˈmædmən /
noun
- a man who is insane, esp one who behaves violently; lunatic
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Liu had been married just two months before and his wife now stood in this Brooklyn hospital, a sudden widow because of a madman.
By giving an artistic veto to a madman, we submit to the mindset of a slave.
In 1997, the influential Italian designer was killed by a madman on a killing spree.
But to dismiss this as a case of a lone “madman” would be a mistake.
A madman has just ravaged an elementary school in Connecticut, leaving 20 children and six faculty dead in his wake.
Would she let Alessandro become a raging madman, and finally kill both himself and her?
Vile aniseed brandy—liquid fire—was sold cheap, and many a man who began the day cool and sober ended it as a raving madman.
"It is a madman," declared the servant, and flattened herself against the hedge.
He dragged the blackened brush through a vessel of clear water, then brandished it like the madman Mata thought him.
But I declare this king worthy of being confined as a madman if he were so atrociously besotted.
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