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View synonyms for lunatic asylum

lunatic asylum

noun

  1. another name, usually regarded as offensive, for mental home
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

There, get along; if he were not so grossly immoral, he would be fit to shut up in a lunatic asylum.

I told you of him, Dr. John Seward, the lunatic-asylum man, with the strong jaw and the good forehead.

To be hilarious in the Strand is to be unnatural, to court detention in a police cell or a lunatic asylum.

Thus had a madman prophesied of the boy one day when he and his nurse were taking a walk near the lunatic asylum at Charenton.

Sam Stay had been removed to a lunatic asylum, and he was dimly conscious of the fact that the man had escaped.

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