What's the difference between madman and madmen?

Madman


Definition:

  • (n.) A man who is mad; lunatic; a crazy person.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Of Khan's murder accusation, Anwar replied: "It's a madman's rant.
  • (2) As with Breivik, politicians will be quick to the thesis of the lone madman.
  • (3) and you're just going round in circles in your head and turning into a madman."
  • (4) But to dismiss this as a case of a lone "madman" would be a mistake.
  • (5) The saintly madman is a familiar character in South Asia.
  • (6) Unless that new song is supposed to have a bit in the middle that sounds like a musical birthday card that was designed by a madman and doesn't have very much battery left.
  • (7) I ask him if he minds not getting the extreme gigs, the starving madman roles that go to Daniel Day-Lewis and the Oscar squad.
  • (8) And how much easier would it be today, in the era of television, for a madman like Hitler or Stalin to pervert the spirit of a whole nation?
  • (9) 6 December Rio Ferdinand criticises Moyes' policy of leaving it late to pick his teams, telling BT Sport: "It turns you into a madman."
  • (10) He told Podemos’s followers to dream and, like that noble madman Don Quixote, “take their dreams seriously”.
  • (11) If the structures of democracy are strong – you can have a madman or madwoman for four years or even eight, and then he or she is gone, and the nation’s freedoms live.
  • (12) Plus "In your heart, you know he's right," the 1964 ad for insane madman loser Barry Goldwater .
  • (13) Don’t think for one minute I was going in every day and behaving like a madman.
  • (14) It was a big-budget popcorn movie with a subversive message at its core that Padilha says he fought for “like a madman”.
  • (15) The nature of the arms trade suggests that they will soon be circulating in the intricate webs of the shadow world, available to any insurgent force; any "terrorist" group; any madman with a plan.
  • (16) The psychiatrist has been depicted in widely varying ways--as madman, as a powerful force for tinkering with the soul, and as a wonder worker who cures patients by uncovering a single traumatic event.
  • (17) The cross-cultural consideration of our Psychiatric Epidemiology Program outlined the profile of the madman and his discourse as both mirror and enigma of his cultural community.
  • (18) He's madder than Mad Jack McMad, the winner of last year's Mr Madman Competition!
  • (19) Nicholson drew barbs at the time for what some critics felt was the over-the-top nature of his performance in the final half-hour, when he degenerates from a taunting madman into a screaming, grunting beast with an axe.
  • (20) "This is not the work of a soldier; this is not the work of madman: it is the work of their government.

Madmen


Definition:

  • (pl. ) of Madman

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Pinel here states that one must "dominate agitated madmen while respecting human rights."
  • (2) Obama has trumpeted the Iran nuclear deal but in April this year told his final nuclear security summit in Washington that terrorist “madmen” obtaining and using a nuclear weapon is one of the greatest threats to global security.
  • (3) There is no real defence against madmen who kill, though it’s worth restating that London’s streets have probably never been safer places.
  • (4) The title track remains one of his most atmospheric compositions, and songs such as All the Madmen and The Width of a Circle were formidably inventive and accomplished.
  • (5) "We export like madmen to China, Latin America, Asia, India.
  • (6) Madmen dropping bombs in places, as if that solves anything.
  • (7) We’re ashamed of the fact that in Spain there are rich madmen who pay for the pleasure of killing wild animals such as lions.” Bryan Orford, a professional wildlife guide who has worked in Hwange and filmed Cecil many times, told National Geographic that the lion was the park’s “biggest tourist attraction”.
  • (8) As Keynes observed of “madmen in authority”, the present government is “distilling its frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back” – in this case the ideology of the so-called Washington Consensus, with its cult of competition and markets and its absurd belief in rational choice.
  • (9) They're not evil madmen, they are writers and designers who want to explore the darker edges of existence.
  • (10) LaPierre said the government should implement his plan: "Thousands of our schools remain vulnerable to the evil intents of madmen," he said.
  • (11) William gave some warnings that Eden was becoming over-excited, while Rab Butler, then Lord Privy Seal in the Cabinet, told the political correspondent Hugh Massingham that he sometimes felt 'surrounded by madmen'.

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