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.
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The Surfers made quite the unprintable name for themselves in the 1980s with a bizarre blend of uproarious and nihilistic punk music and equally demented stage shows.
    René A. Guzman, ExpressNews.com, 9 Jan. 2020

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