Neurotic

//n(j)ʊəˈɹɒtɪk//

"Neurotic" in a Sentence (16 examples)

When someone becomes neurotic about pens and paper clips, it's a sure sign they're cracking up.

Mary is neurotic.

Tom is neurotic.

Mary's getting more neurotic the older she gets.

I don't think I'm neurotic.

I think Tom is neurotic.

I think that Tom is neurotic.

I don't think that I'm neurotic.

His work reflects a neurotic society.

Tom is a neurotic.

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If there were such a thing as inspiration from a higher realm, it might well be that the neurotic temperament would furnish the chief condition of the requisite receptivity.

He is getting neurotic about time-keeping.

“I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera, the gorged dowagers, the worn-out, passionless men,[…], the speed-mad fugitives from the furies of ennui, the neurotic victims of mental cirrhosis,[…]!”

“You did come down a wallop, didn't you? How art thou fallen from heaven, oh Lucifer, son of the morning, I said to myself. You're so terribly neurotic, Bertie. You must try to be less jumpy. What you need is a good nerve tonic.”

Elisheva Lambert called herself a “totally neurotic Jew from Toronto who is doing everything my parents didn’t want me to.[…]”

Drag this neurotic to hysterics, leave him balked and unfulfilled; holding inside, outwardly patient 'til the time he'll call it.

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