as in lunatic
a person having or showing a severely disordered or abnormal state of mind
the police suspect a sickie with an obsession for the celebrity
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Recent Examples of sickie
Also in flu news, one of the few medications available might not be right for every sickie, especially healthy children and young adults.
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Editors, USA TODAY, 15 Feb. 2018
Editors, USA TODAY, 15 Feb. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sickie
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Or Austin Butler giving alabaster psychopath in Dune: Part Two.Joe Reid, Vulture, 10 Dec. 2024
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Sadly, this instinct goes both ways—psychopaths are similarly able to read others, most notably vulnerable targets.Gautam Mukunda, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024
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Nothing brings people together like making fools of yourselves.Erin Reimel, Glamour, 27 Dec. 2024
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Lost Lost, the 2000s mystery drama serial, always seemed like a fool’s errand to me.Vox Staff, Vox, 23 Dec. 2024
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Accordingly, Slow Horses has worked hard to feed into his persona, offering a slow trickle of wordless shots or small scenes of Harkness while gassing up his reputation as an assassin, a terrorist, and an all-around maniac.Scott Tobias, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2024
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And finally, Matador is readying the next batch of catalog reissues from legendary psychedelic/psychotic maniacs Butthole Surfers.Jason Pettigrew, SPIN, 21 Nov. 2024
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Texturally, the series is best categorized as a psycho-thriller, but the design of the episodes is never redundant.WIRED, WIRED, 17 Mar. 2023
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Another summer, another hook-wielding psycho killer — and maybe some familiar faces too.Jessica Wang, EW.com, 7 Feb. 2023
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Earlier this month, Kevin and Danielle told PEOPLE that their younger daughter seems to have been bitten by the musical bug.Hannah Sacks, People.com, 24 Dec. 2024
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Involving a human not only provides a performance benchmark but also helps identify bugs in your implementation.Lukas Petersson, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
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“Sickie.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sickie. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
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