(a.) Exhibiting unsoundness or disorded of mind; not sane; mad; deranged in mind; delirious; distracted. See Insanity, 2.
(a.) Used by, or appropriated to, insane persons; as, an insane hospital.
(a.) Causing insanity or madness.
(a.) Characterized by insanity or the utmost folly; chimerical; unpractical; as, an insane plan, attempt, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) What constitutes a "mental disorder" for purposes of the insanity defense?
(2) Existing mental health and criminal justice systems provide social control for some of these dangerous individuals, but may be inadequate to deal with those mentally disordered offenders who were not found not guilty by reason of insanity (NGI).
(3) First, I recapped Die Hard 2 – the insane cross-eyed Gizmo of the Die Hard world – a few months ago, and now I'm secretly determined to do the whole series before the Guardian film editors wise up and yank this feature from my warm, live hands.
(4) But gas prices hit $5 in California this month, a price consumers think is "insane" .
(5) After briefly discussing the limitations of expert testimony and the adversarial demands of the judicial system, the author concludes that the insanity defense should be retained but altered, and that psychiatrists should bear the burdens of advocating for the mentally ill.
(6) The review demonstrates that conditional release is particularly important as a means of balancing the protection of society with the treatment of insanity defense acquittees in the least restrictive environment.
(7) He has, however, refused to testify, invoking his right to remain silent, while his lawyer has insisted his client is “insane” and therefore unfit for trial.
(8) Four forensic psychiatrists were asked to indicate whether they thought 164 defendants met any or all of four insanity tests: 1) the American Law Institute (ALI) cognitive criterion, 2) the ALI volitional criterion, 3) the APA test, and 4) the M'Naghten rule.
(9) There is a need for Parliament to consider changes to the law both to prevent the mentally disordered being sent to prison inappropriately, and because the Mental Health Act 1983 has not taken account of rare cases where an offender such as an epileptic might be found legally insane but not mentally disordered.
(10) Others are taking the rally at face value and planning to turn up with banners proclaiming themselves part of the reasonable majority, liberal or conservative, against the particular brand of insanity that has swept America since Barack Obama entered the White House.
(11) I have to stay moving, going, running, just to keep me from going insane Michael Brown Sr “I lost my boy.
(12) A bit insane if you consider that most of the [Asian] lads were born in Rochdale.
(13) Documenting the early history of mental illness in North America is complicated by the absence of colonial institutions specializing in the care or management of the insane.
(14) Tesla Model-S launch: an electric car to answer even Clarkson's objections Read more Elon Musk’s Tesla has shown that electric vehicles are viable for a business with its Roadster and then Model S , which recently gained a faster dual-motor version with an “insane mode” which reaches 60 miles per hour in under 3.2 seconds.
(15) Not only is the use of the insanity defense infrequent, but defendants who select it give up important safeguards.
(16) The lawyer defending Anders Behring Breivik, the suspect behind Norway's terror attacks, said on Tuesday he had concluded his client was most likely "insane" and he was baffled that he had asked him to represent him.
(17) The treatment of insane persons in the last century is briefly described.
(18) The authors propose that, as occurs in tertiary neurosyphilis and general paresis of the insane, Borrelia species may invade the brain, remain in a latent state for many years, and cause dementia in the absence of other focal neurologic deficits.
(19) He sounds fresh as a daisy, which is kind of insane.
(20) McClure said she believed the "insane amount of media" at the park was keeping officials at bay.
Madhouse
Definition:
(n.) A house where insane persons are confined; an insane asylum; a bedlam.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ian Cruise, an independent councillor in Birmingham who resigned as a prison officer at the West Midlands jail in July, said it was an “absolute madhouse” and should be taken back from G4s control.
(2) EDM today has come a long way from the early days of house and techno, when sound was privileged over vision, an ethos enshrined in the title of the 1992 Madhouse compilation A Basement, a Red Light, and a Feeling .
(3) Four hours from the Zurich madhouse, Uefa’s base on the shores of Lake Geneva in Nyon hums with calm purpose.
(4) Lord Oakeshott of Seagrove Bay, the former Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesman who is an adviser to Cable, described the proposal as the "economics of the madhouse".
(5) Otherwise your capitalism degrades into a low-trust, low-investment, low-innovation madhouse in which all shareholders think about is the next deal and next chance to exit – and where wage inequalities grow ever higher.
(6) But turn the page and there's Dillon's editor, Bill Bradshaw, wailing that "Fabio Capello today has to show he is worth his £6m salary by bringing some sanity to the Rustenberg madhouse."
(7) The saga has a history of celebrating tough females, and you’d have to be truly crazy to survive as a lone woman in the saga’s dusty post-apocalyptic madhouse.
(8) Particularly in a week like this, to travel from London to Berlin feels like leaving the madhouse and arriving in a world inhabited by rational beings once more.
(9) Lots of bodies haven’t been picked up because the separatists are shooting.” “It was a madhouse.
(10) In those cities, 0.3334 of them studied Medicine and 0.6444 of them lived there; 0.6 of them worked in hospitals and 0.2222 of them worked in madhouses.
(11) He said he had also lost his Kremlin pass and described what was happening in Moscow as 'a madhouse'.
(12) 'I'm not staying in this madhouse' Rampling was born in Essex, the daughter of a colonel and a painter.
(13) Osborne dubbed Darling's plans "a tax rise on almost all jobs", and "the economics of the madhouse", claiming it was a mistake to increase the tax burden in this way.
(14) That would be frankly the economics of the madhouse.
(15) But I said, 'No way, Jose, I'm not staying here in this madhouse.'
(16) Out on the ramp, where, with the "the madhouse tannoy squawking links and rechts ", the selections are reversed as reunions, the narrative voice commiserates with the protagonist.
(17) He also started visiting his local bar, the Luda Kuca (“Madhouse”), a smoke-filled, rough-edged place that appealed to a shifting crowd of impoverished war veterans, Bosnian Serbs and Montenegrins.
(18) In addition, as President of the "Junta de Beneficencia de Santiago" he supervised and updated hospital care management and founded several health institutions such as the Madhouse, the Orphan House and the School of Midwifery.
(19) Wherever he was, whether sectioned in the madhouse, or home, sprawled on his red-velvet chaise longue, amid a blizzard of books, ash and paper, he was one of life's great learners, a modest student of the world he wrote about with such exhilarating power.
(20) That was because of the strange case of John Clare's copyright, whereby a living editor claimed the copyright of a poet who had died in a madhouse a century and a half ago.