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Around the bend

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Adjective
  1. 1
    informal or slang terms for mentally irregular wordnet
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  1. 1
    Alternative form of round the bend (crazy, insane). alt-of, alternative

    "Despite some opposition from other staff members, Navasky and Pochoda decided to publish Sherrill's stylish and daring tone-poem, in which AIDS falls with poetic justice upon the right-wing Roy Cohn. Pochoda calls this "fresh" and "on the edge?" I'd call it rotten and around the bend, as tired and crazed as Reverend Falwell."

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