Example sentences for: demented

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

  • Rather than dismiss the shooter as a cold-blooded killer, Bush called him a "sick person" who must be "demented."

  • While I have no information on Bill Donohue and his cohorts, all too often what's revealed is an unappetizing confederacy of rabid bigots and slick hustlers with mailing lists who know funds can be extracted from the demented to attack everything from Tom Sawyer to Teletubbies.

  • Her Camille is like a steely, demented temperance activist who keeps charging into otherwise relaxed settings and throwing them into chaos.

  • 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.

  • He concluded, "So the man caught red-handed in perjury, obstruction of justice and ungallantly smearing his lover as a demented stalker is hailed as the winner.


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