(n.) The name of a female fairy, esp. the queen of the fairies; and hence, sometimes, any fairy.
() p. p. of Made.
(superl.) Disordered in intellect; crazy; insane.
(superl.) Excited beyond self-control or the restraint of reason; inflamed by violent or uncontrollable desire, passion, or appetite; as, to be mad with terror, lust, or hatred; mad against political reform.
(superl.) Proceeding from, or indicating, madness; expressing distraction; prompted by infatuation, fury, or extreme rashness.
(superl.) Extravagant; immoderate.
(superl.) Furious with rage, terror, or disease; -- said of the lower animals; as, a mad bull; esp., having hydrophobia; rabid; as, a mad dog.
(superl.) Angry; out of patience; vexed; as, to get mad at a person.
(superl.) Having impaired polarity; -- applied to a compass needle.
(v. t.) To make mad or furious; to madden.
(v. i.) To be mad; to go mad; to rave. See Madding.
(n.) An earthworm.
Example Sentences:
(1) Do [MPs] remember the madness of those advertisements that talked of the cool fresh mountain air of menthol cigarettes?
(2) Right from the beginning, I had been mad about movies.
(3) "This will be not only be a postcode lottery, but a States vs Europe lottery and that would be madness."
(4) It took years of prep work to make this sort of Übermensch thing socially acceptable, let alone hot – lots of “legalize it!” and “you are economic supermen!” appeals to the balled-and-entitled toddler-fists of the sociopathic libertechian madding crowd to really get mechanized mass-death neo-fascism taken mainstream .
(5) Or perhaps the "mad cow"-fuelled beef war in the late 1990s, when France maintained its ban on British beef for three long years after the rest of the EU had lifted it, prompting the Sun to publish a special edition in French portraying then president Jacques Chirac as a worm.
(6) • +33 2 98 50 10 12, hotel-les-sables-blancs.com , doubles from €105 room only Hôtel Ty Mad, Douarnenez Hôtel Ty Mad In the 1920s the little beach and fishing village of Douarnenez was a favourite haunt of the likes of Pablo Picasso and writer and artist Max Jacob.
(7) If you’re against the RFS, you’re going to make Iowans mad, you’re going to [have] some Iowans question you but the beauty of Iowa is you can take your case to the people,” said Kaufmann.
(8) In its more loose, common usage, it's a game in which the rivalry has come to acquire the mad, rancorous intensity of a Celtic-Rangers, a Real Madrid-Barcelona, an Arsenal-Tottenham, a River Plate-Boca Juniors.
(9) Yes, we can assign more or less responsibility – I blame Austria-Hungary and Germany for their mad determination to destroy Serbia knowing that a general war might result – but there is still plenty of room for disagreement.
(10) It’s good to hear a full-throated defence of social security as a basic principle of civilisation, and a reiteration of the madness of renewing Trident; pleasing too to behold how much Burnham and Cooper have had to belatedly frame their arguments in terms of fundamental principle.
(11) The blue skipping rope – that’s the key to this race.” My eight-year-old daughter looked at me like I was mad … but when it came time for the year 3 skipping race, she did as she was told – and duly chalked up a glorious personal best in third place.
(12) The policies of zero tolerance equip local and federal law-enforcement with increasingly autocratic powers of coercion and surveillance (the right to invade anybody's privacy, bend the rules of evidence, search barns, stop motorists, inspect bank records, tap phones) and spread the stain of moral pestilence to ever larger numbers of people assumed to be infected with reefer madness – anarchists and cheap Chinese labour at the turn of the 20th century, known homosexuals and suspected communists in the 1920s, hippies and anti-Vietnam war protesters in the 1960s, nowadays young black men sentenced to long-term imprisonment for possession of a few grams of short-term disembodiment.
(13) Maleic acid dimethylester (MAD) was investigated in acute and subacute dermal toxicity studies, for sensitization potential, and for in vivo and in vitro genotoxicity.
(14) Or maybe it's the other way round - the constant touring is a manifestation of their madness.
(15) And while one may think that the bishops of the Church of England don’t quite have the sex appeal of Russell Brand, we think that we should counter it.” While the bishops stress that their letter is not intended as “a shopping list of policies we would like to see”, they do advocate a number of specific steps, including a re-examination of the need for Trident, a retention of the commitment to funding overseas aid and a reassessment of areas where regulations fuel “the common perception of ‘health and safety gone mad’”.
(16) He still thinks Labour was mad to get him of all people to work inside the system.
(17) That has changed over the past few years as wallpaper has made a comeback and women have remembered that they like wearing madly patterned dresses – particularly leopard-print ones, or ones with huge flowers.
(18) Seeing the performance later in Edinburgh, I was impressed by Briers' ability to encompass the hero's rage and madness.
(19) It would be hard to allow working from home if I thought that they were all watching box sets of Mad Men.
(20) People thought she'd gone mad, but in retrospect it's clear that this was precisely what she needed in order to move forward.
Nutty
Definition:
(a.) Abounding in nuts.
(a.) Having a flavor like that of nuts; as, nutty wine.
Example Sentences:
(1) Increase the heat under the syrup and cook, without stirring, until it turns a rich, nutty brown.
(2) Despite its rich, earthy, nutty flavour, the taste is very delicate, and thus pairs really well with a sharp citrus reduction.
(3) Lee Thompson, on sax, had the concept of The Nutty Boys.
(4) His colleagues tease him, telling him they're for thinktanks, not politicians, and that "people will think you're a sort of nutty professor".
(5) The texture of a good baguette should be moist, very slightly chewy and with a hint of a nutty flavour.
(6) Worse was the nutty suggestion that the press call Fox News’s rabidly rightwing host, Sean Hannity, a Trump supporter, for confirmation.
(7) The dish tasted fine – the mealworms had a slightly nutty, toasted flavour and gave the quiche an extra crunch – but it still made my stomach turn.
(8) About Chile: Having finished second in South American qualifying under the stewardship of the pigstick nutty Marcelo Bielso, Chile favour a 3-3-1-3 formation, with one of two playmakers (usually Matias Fernandez) positioned behind three strikers ( un enganche y tres punta ) on an all-out attacking side.
(9) 8.06pm BST Christine is making a nutty, locally sourced loaf to go with a locally sourced cheese.
(10) Amaranth stuffed mushrooms with za’atar and pine nuts Facebook Twitter Pinterest Yotam Ottolenghi’s amaranth stuffed mushrooms: the za’atar in the nutty topping brings a tart note to proceedings.
(11) ‘Oh my God, look at Lee now, isn’t she hysterical, she’s so nutty.
(12) "It forced a break and sent you a bit nutty for a year."
(13) Rahim, the son of Algerian-born parents, grew up in the eastern town of Belfort, famous for the nutty Comté cheese.
(14) Similarly, the Daily Mail splashed with "Murder police quiz 'nutty professor' with a blue rinse" and the Daily Mirror told its 1.2 million readers: "Jo suspect is Peeping Tom".
(15) Haldane replies that: "One man's nuttiness is another man's animal spirits."
(16) In this absolutely nutty system, in which tax can only be explained as a punishment for failing to get rich enough to avoid it, insult is heaped upon injury as judges then characterise the “UK taxpayer” as a special class of person, all themselves in full-time, well-paid employment.
(17) When two young women, hardly able to speak for coy giggles, approach our table for autographs and a photo, my reflex is to wonder whether some nutty rule about image rights will get in the way; Joey just puts down his fish-finger sandwich, smiles sweetly and asks: "Is it Jemma with a J?"
(18) But despite it all, the match that directly followed Maradona’s downfall was a stone-cold World Cup classic: Romania versus Argentina, a nutty end-to-end speed-rush of top-drawer footballing brilliance.
(19) Even Ford would have struggled to make such a line trip off the tongue, and it’s around this time that one is reminded Rogue One has been penned by the screenwriters of After Earth and Nutty Professor 2: The Klumps.
(20) The Egremont russet [with its characteristic matt brown skin] has a quirky nutty flavour and is great with cheese, but young consumers wouldn’t pick them up.