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a person who seeks out very dangerous or foolhardy adventures with no apparent fear as far as I'm concerned, anyone who likes skydiving is a madman

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Recent Examples of madman Starring David Howard Thornton as the film series’ murderous madman Art the Clown, Terrifier 3, per the film’s U.K. distributor Signature Entertainment, had 11 audience members hitting the exits early at the film’s premiere inthe UK last week. Tim Lammers, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024 Written by Graham Yost, Speed casts Reeves as Los Angeles police detective Jack Traven who finds himself at the center of a hostage situation when madman Howard Payne (Dennis Hopper) rigs a Los Angeles bus with explosives. Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019 Hyde is set in London, in a fictional world where the madman in Robert Louis Stevenson's influential Gothic horror novella Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde did not die, Negron said. David Bloom, Forbes, 29 Sep. 2024 When the Politburo clung on to these policies longer than apolitical foreign health officials thought reasonable, Western analysts assumed that Xi had to be either under pressure internally or a tyrannical madman. Christopher Johnson, Foreign Affairs, 22 Feb. 2023 See all Example Sentences for madman 

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“Madman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/madman. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.

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