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maniac
[ mey-nee-ak ]
noun
- a raving or violently insane person; lunatic.
- any intemperate or overly zealous or enthusiastic person:
a maniac when it comes to details.
adjective
maniac
/ ˈmeɪnɪˌæk /
noun
- a wild disorderly person
- a person who has a great craving or enthusiasm for something
a football maniac
- obsolete.psychiatry a person afflicted with mania
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Origin of maniac1
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Example Sentences
It would almost be less disturbing if he was showing some kind of sign he was a homicidal maniac.
Of course, Kim Jong-Un takes an image hit as a Katy Perry-obsessed, margarita-drinking maniac with daddy issues.
For as much as Walter was a maniac, he was at the forefront of printing art.
Tom Sizemore is, it seems, no longer a maniac—but he's convinced he can still play one onscreen.
“It fell out of the window, I think,” says the little maniac.
There, in the crush, he unceremoniously lost her, and sped like a maniac to the entrance gates.
On each side of the driver of the galloping steeds stood a man, shouting like a maniac of the boatswain type.
We do not blame the maniac who burns a house down and brains a policeman, nor the mad dog who bites a minor poet.
I regard Lucrezia Borgia as a homicidal maniac, and Torquemada as a religious maniac.
But Lasseroe was a maniac now and he wanted to take the life away from the jewelry designer.
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