half-mad

adjective

1. not entirely sane
2. extremely upset or distracted

   half-mad with fear

Example Sentences

To his detractors, he was a half-mad paranoiac who nearly destroyed the CIA in his obsessive search for a Soviet mole.

From The Daily Beast

But Daniel Day-Lewis is splendid as Lincoln, and Sally Field almost as good as the cunning, half-mad Mary.

From The Daily Beast

Pace Freud, artists do not have to be hard-living, half-mad or broke to make fine, authentic work.

From The Daily Beast

Then she won, and went half mad with the joy and excitement, but the joy didn't last long.

From Project Gutenberg

I went out to-night to take a quiet walk upon this place, and the horrid brazen discord of these trumpeters set me half mad.

From Project Gutenberg

The little maid Anglore, half mad in her illusion, is none the less a very sympaPg 173thetic creation, and surely quite original.

From Project Gutenberg

Elise had been to Madame Degardy as good a friend as a half-mad creature, with no memory, would permit her.

From Project Gutenberg

I cannot describe my own sensations, for I believe I was half mad with triumph and excitement.

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