insane

IPA: ɪnsˈeɪn

adjective

  • Exhibiting unsoundness or disorder of mind; not sane; utterly mad.
  • Used by or relating to insane people.
  • Causing insanity or madness.
  • (informal) Characterized by excess or the utmost folly; ridiculous; impractical.
  • (slang) Extremely good; incredibly amazing.
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Examples of "insane" in Sentences

  • Look at what I call the insane spending of government in America.
  • The term insane is outdated parlance in the mental health community.
  • I think the word insane is appropriate in your blog, however awesome?
  • She did not manage to get the word "insane" out, for another wave of agony hit her, far worse than the previous.
  • He remembers what he calls the "insane" calculus of Mutually Assured Destruction, which dominated Cold War policy.
  • As a matter of fact, the doctor, when he came the next day, was in a towering rage with Mrs. Van Shaw over what he called her insane yielding to the request of a delirious patient.
  • when hitler started the pracitice of euthenasia he started with his own people in the insane asylums, and the term insane back then is not what we consider it to be now.. a kid with ADD or midly slow could be "put down".. all part of the "not fit to work not fit for life" campiagn.
  • Under Section 16 of Canada's Criminal Code, a person is deemed to be not criminally responsible the term 'insane' having been scrapped if the crime was committed while "suffering from a mental disorder that rendered the person incapable of appreciating the nature and quality of the act or omission or of knowing that it was wrong."

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