Example sentences for: demented

How can you use “demented” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • I know I sound like those demented digerati who have spent too much time in the insular world of Silicon Valley, but I firmly believe that the Internet is underhyped.

  • For the same reasons, leprosy is now called Hansen's disease , and mongolism has become Down syndrome ; people who were once called crazy, mad, lunatic, demented, etc., are now categorized as sick . All this name changing is mere logomancy which neither changes the fact that there is something wrong with the afflicted nor, in the long run, our attitudes towards them.

  • But what sets it apart from, say, "Dear Abby," is the demented, quasi-military precision of the Rules.

  • In the New Republic , James Wood calls Toni Morrison's Paradise trite and sentimental: "It forces magic and pure rhapsodies on its characters like a demented anesthetist bullying patients with laughing gas."

  • In Paris, the conservative Le Figaro repeated the usual French view that Flytrap is a symptom of demented American puritanism.


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