What's the difference between kleptomaniac and maniac?

Kleptomaniac


Definition:

  • (n.) A person affected with kleptomania.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Still, it’s hard to point fingers at a kleptomaniac when you have sticky fingers too.
  • (2) To be impolite, it is theft," he said , branding search engines such as Google and Yahoo as "content kleptomaniacs" .
  • (3) In the link economy, value is made not only by those who create content but also by those who create a public for it: the aggregators and curators, such as Google itself, whom Rupert Murdoch and his team label as "parasites," "content kleptomaniacs", and "tech tapeworms in the intestines of the internet".
  • (4) I don’t understand why, for example, fetishists, kleptomaniacs or transsexuals should be banned from driving a car… I think this is a violation of the rights of Russian citizens.” The move was also criticised by international rights activists, who said it could create a climate of fear.
  • (5) The old kleptomaniac, who stashed away about $5bn while his country went to ruin, was driven from power by the first Rwandan invasion.
  • (6) Subsequently, we suggest distinguishing between two groups of kleptomaniac patients who can be differentiated with regard to their symptoms and psychodynamics.
  • (7) Huffington said she was disappointed by the insults used by the old media: "Sites that aggregate the news have become, in the words of Rupert Murdoch and his team, 'parasites', 'content kleptomaniacs', 'vampires', 'tech tapeworms in the intestines of the internets, and, of course, thieves who 'steal all our copyright'.
  • (8) We give a list of the descriptive-empirical papers which prove that one cannot speak of an independent clinical picture, but rather that the kleptomaniac actions may be a symptom of multiple causes.
  • (9) The vicious kleptomaniac was eventually overthrown after losing his cold war sponsors in the west.
  • (10) Some kleptomaniacs seem to be "fixed" on special objects when stealing.
  • (11) But the one thing we know about the murderous kleptomaniac regime in Russia is that it walks all over the weak.
  • (12) Suddenly she looked like a middle-class kleptomaniac caught leaving Harrods."
  • (13) Their presence, and the support of Zaire's former kleptomaniac leader, Mobutu Sese Seko, for his old Hutu allies, sowed the seeds of much of the subsequent upheaval in Congo.

Maniac


Definition:

  • (a.) Raving with madness; raging with disordered intellect; affected with mania; mad.
  • (n.) A raving lunatic; a madman.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It blamed "confrontation maniacs" for "[making their] servants of conservative media let loose a whole string of sophism intended to hatch all sorts of dastardly wicked plots and float misinformation".
  • (2) I’m a maniac and everyone on this stage is stupid, fat and ugly,” he deadpanned.
  • (3) The question of the psychogenesis of schizophrenia-like, maniac or depressive psychoses in epileptics until now cannot be answered because the psychosocial patterns which might condition them have not jet been investigated upon.
  • (4) The French unit also has proposals for a new film from Dutch genre icon Paul Verhoeven and a remake of 1988 cult horror Maniac Cop on its slate for Cannes.
  • (5) "There is no consistency in the outlook of the Nigerian maniacs: they use weapons produced by the very capitalist system they claim to deplore, for instance.
  • (6) Similarly the hypermotility of a maniacal type has a smooth and purposeful character, as far as the relation to a particular situation is concerned, which suggests that the respective topological functional structures are preserved.
  • (7) And that is how I became a religious maniac and a total hedonist at the same time.
  • (8) Umar, a childlike 30-year-old from Rebo with a maniacal laugh, was diving for tin in exactly the same manner when his four metre-deep underwater ditch collapsed around him, knocking away his mask and air tube.
  • (9) The antidepressive effects of SAMe have been evident and statistically highly interesting, precocious, free from collateral effects and maniacal rebounds.
  • (10) And as for Boris, the other main outer – he’s a cycling maniac from Islington.
  • (11) If the automatic budget cuts are a brick wall, the Democrats and Republicans are the addled maniacs fighting for control of the wheel as they drive straight for it.
  • (12) He's a maniac, and he's on first after another base hit - Martinez strolls into third base so that means there are runners at the corners with one out and here's Alex Avila trying to put the Tigers on top early.
  • (13) 12 min: The two sides of Argentina: they put together a sublime 20-pass move which nearly ends in Sorin being found free in the box with a threaded pass from Veron; then Batistuta slides into Cole like a maniac.
  • (14) There have been attacks on our Russian and Soviet diplomats, but not something this dramatic.” Kosachev said the repercussions of the killing on Russian-Turkish relations would depend on the details of the incident: “It could have been a planned terrorist attack by extremists or it could be the work of a lone maniac.
  • (15) Those are the kinds of questions Trayvon Martin had to ultimately defend himself against posthumously, despite the fact the unarmed 17 year-old was killed by a gun wielding maniac (who’d eventually walk away free and later harm women ).
  • (16) Why do Trump’s supporters have so little faith in America’s freedoms as to think them vulnerable to a few homicidal maniacs, egged on by his friends in the gun lobby?
  • (17) A couple of years back, Jackie Calmes published research for Harvard’s Kennedy School about the ways in which conservative media’s maniacal “anti-establishment” orientation made it impossible for conservatives to govern.
  • (18) He said the president was “ maniacally focused ” on fulfilling his campaign promises and predicted a daily fight against the media, airing grievances against what he called the opposition party.
  • (19) Now, it’s entirely possible that these Republicans are endorsing Clinton because Trump is an unhinged maniac who has given people of all political persuasions plenty of reason to not want him anywhere near the levers of power.
  • (20) Combined investigation in patients with maniac-depressive psychosis revealed the close relation of depression to the direction in which changes of central and peripheral links of bodily neurohumoral system occur.

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