How to Use demented in a Sentence

demented

adjective

• Many of the patients there were demented.
• He gave me a demented little smile.
• Her demented ramblings are a symptom of her illness.
• In the movie, he plays a demented man trying to survive on the streets of Los Angeles.
• Half a century later, the scene seems no less appalling, given the way Stanley Kubrick made such ultraviolence look like fun for the demented kids who were doing it.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 31 Aug. 2024
• These men were on the front line guarding the White House, and were killed by a sick and demented man.
  — Washington Post, 29 July 1998
• The movie is every bit as demented and bizarre as that task.
  — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Aug. 2019
• Marie and the character are aligned in a demented, carpe diem sort of way.
  — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 25 May 2023
• What kind of sick demented cruel mind thinks of things like this to post?
  — Travis M. Andrews, Washington Post, 20 Feb. 2018
• These are sick and demented people who were in the sights of Scotland Yard.
  — Chas Danner, Daily Intelligencer, 17 Sep. 2017
• Egads, there's a demented psychopath popping out of the wall.
  — John Petkovic, cleveland.com, 13 Oct. 2017
• That is so demented to me, to even question anyone other than the rapist.
  — Amber Dowling, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 May 2017
• The walls of the demented ballet school that serves as the film’s nightmarish setting are blood red, both inside and out.
  — Aja Romano, Vox, 9 Nov. 2018
• It’s to create a playlist for your future demented self.
  — Eric Zorn, chicagotribune.com, 14 June 2019
• Here are some of our favorite—and most demented—Coachella looks.
  — Liz Raiss, GQ, 17 Apr. 2018
• Blenny fish have always been notable for their big teeth—choppers that give their mouths a demented kind of grin.
  — Erin Blakemore, Smithsonian, 3 Apr. 2017
• Even Richard Nixon at his most demented never levelled the sort of charges that Trump hurls on a daily basis.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2017
• Hadn’t the rowdy boys cheered louder for my talent, which was whistling like a somewhat demented bird?
  — Mary Grimm, The New Yorker, 17 June 2019
• But this book is a lot more demented than a simple whodunnit.
  — Megan McCarthy, USA TODAY, 28 Mar. 2020
• Plaza, too, is demented and funny and satirical and teeming with almost too much pathos to watch.
  — Allison P. Davis, The Cut, 1 Aug. 2017
• But even the show’s pretty ingénue, the fair Rosamund, is played by Ahna O’Reilly with a goofy, innocent grin that borders on demented.
  — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2016
• Metal appeals to misfits and loners who run in packs, some of whom wouldn't miss the chance to dress like a demented airline attendant.
  — Jeffrey Lee Puckett, The Courier-Journal, 1 Oct. 2017
• The actor is playing a demented and villainous warlord, which is a far cry from his trademark Thor role.
  — Zack Sharf, Variety, 13 May 2024
• The stories are short, some scarcely a paragraph long, and the demented vibe of this one is representative.
  — The Atlantic Culture Desk, The Atlantic, 25 Oct. 2023
• By the time Kavinsky's demented vox pipes in, the accelerator is flush with the floor, your back pulled into the passenger seat.
  — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 26 Nov. 2019
• But the hate — and the demented ideology — that has killed their neighbors and wounded a city forever has many sources of power.
  — Margaret Sullivan, Washington Post, 17 May 2022
• Forky is an adorable, demented little spork outfitted with pipe-cleaner arms and a cute, squiggly face.
  — Julia Alexander, The Verge, 12 Nov. 2018
• In The Capital, all the genuine idealists in the novel are old, lonely, demented, or dead—with no connection to the modern world.
  — Andrew Moravcsik, Foreign Affairs, 10 Dec. 2019
• Though bloodied and battered by this blood sport, her sheer survival is her resistance against the gaping maws of the demented tradition.
  — Katie Walsh, Detroit Free Press, 19 Aug. 2019
• As played by Shôta Sometani, Kase is a greedy, slightly demented terrier: a horror to contemplate and joy to watch.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 3 Oct. 2019

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024