unhinged

IPA: ʌnhˈɪndʒd

adjective

  • (figuratively, usually humorous) Mentally ill or unstable.
  • Not furnished with a hinge.
  • (philately, of a stamp) Not having ever been mounted using a stamp hinge.
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Examples of "unhinged" in Sentences

  • The name unhinged Truvy and she could no longer hold back what had been bottled inside since she’d walked into the parlor.
  • Many on the right complained bitterly during the Bush presidency that liberals engaged repeatedly in unhinged condemnations of President Bush.
  • Callers who are too polished (boring callers, in the vernacular) sometimes have a harder time getting through, though Danheiser admits that the line between interesting and unhinged is a fine one.
  • No Way Out actress Sean Young is still considered a Hollywood outcast after a string of incidents that earned her the label "unhinged," such as being sued for harassment by her then-boyfriend, actor James Woods, over two decades ago.
  • But in order for there to be sufficient fluidity in the rapid-fire swapping of stock bundles of individual homes, those mortgages had to be unhinged from the valid legal restraints that had governed their issuance throughout most of human history.

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