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She has a neurotic obsession with cleanliness.neurotic = excessively concern
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Don't let neurotics dictate what's done.neurotics = people with mild mental disorders
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Her neurotic fear of heights prevented her from enjoying the breathtaking view from the skyscraper’s observation deck.neurotic = excessive worry about
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If the queen were smarter, she would probably be hopelessly neurotic. (source)neurotic = mentally disturbed
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Edwards regarded climbing as a "psycho-neurotic tendency"; he climbed not for sport but to find refuge from the inner torment that framed his existence. (source)
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When Dussel is talking about Mrs. van D., he invariably calls her "that old bat" or "that stupid hag," and conversely, Mrs. van D. refers to our ever so learned gentleman as an "old maid" or a "touchy neurotic spinster," etc. The pot calling the kettle black! (source)
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T S. Eliot, in "The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock" (1917), has his neurotic, timorous main character say he was never cut out to be Prince Hamlet, that the most he could be is an extra, someone who could come on to fill out the numbers onstage or possibly be sacrificed to plot exigency. (source)neurotic = mildly mentally disturbed
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I'd sit in front of her desk and make troubled-brow faces which I thought illustrated the deep level of neurosis I represented.† (source)neurosis = a mild mental disorder -- usually worrying too much about something
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I felt like myself when I was with him, whereas I was always trying to hide my neuroses around Toby. (source)neuroses = mild mental disorders
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Advanced neurotics can be dazzling at that game.† (source)neurotics = people with mild mental disorders
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It was like struggling with some crushing physical task, something which one had the right to refuse and which one was nevertheless neurotically anxious to accomplish. (source)neurotically = in a manner that indicates being mentally disturbed
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I am neurotic. (source)neurotic = mildly mentally disturbed -- usually worrying too much about something
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These things were a dime a dozen here, and everyone wore their neurosis like a badge, each carrying a certain weight, the way a particular brand of sweater or jeans had in junior high.† (source)neurosis = a mild mental disorder -- usually worrying too much about something
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Negroes don't have much neuroses, do they?† (source)neuroses = mild mental disorders -- usually worrying too much about something
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You're not a country at all, you're not a government, you're a fifthrate dictatorship of political neurotics.† (source)neurotics = people with mild mental disorders
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After her transformation, Hanna had been neurotically careful about not only looking cool and perfect at all times, but being cool and perfect, too.† (source)
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