madman
mad·man (mad′man′, -mən)
noun pl. -·men′-men′, -mən
a demented or insane person; lunatic; maniac
madman
n.
Possessives
- dream: It's the stuff of a madman's dreams!
Converse of object
- stop: Peter must use all the powers at his disposal to try to stop this diabolical madman in his octagonal tracks.
- call: In fact the only trouble we had was when he let a madman called Harris drive, who managed to overheat everytime.
- die: About 30 years ago most of the smelters died either madmen or idiots.
- like: He rushed at him like a madman, and a desperate struggle ensued, which lasted some considerable time.
- know: HAMM: I once knew a madman who thought the end of the world had come.
- say: The ladies rushed into the smoking room saying a madman was in the Pullman.
Adjective modifier
- evil: The traditional response of the state to racist murders such as this is to describe them as an aberration, perpetrated by evil madmen.
- dangerous: My uncle was a dangerous madman, if you will, but he was not cruel and base as I had feared.
- many: And there will be many more madmen until Christ returns!
- poor: God will not condemn the soul of a poor madman.
- Iranian: Only a few blogs ( and almost no mainstream media ) have realized the truth about Iranian madman Ahmadinejad's letter to President Bush.
- lone: Instead, the story becomes one of fugitives chased across the desert by a lone madman, bent on revenge.
Modifies a noun
- burst: Most telling are the final sentences, when he writes, " The madman bursts into tears, and swears it is all true.
Preposition: in
- authority: Madmen in authority, who hear the voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some of a few years back.
Ihold a beast, anangel and a madmanwithinme, and my enquiry is as to their working, and my problem is their subjugation and victory, downthrow and upheaval, and my effort is their self expression.
In my dreams is a country where the State is the Church and the Church the people: three in one and one in three. It is a commonwealth in which work is play and play is life: three in one and one in three. It is a temple in which the priest is the worshipper and the worshipper the worshipped: three in one and one in three. It is a godhead in which all life is human and all humanity divine: three in one and one in three. It is, in short, the dream of a madman.
To Walden the saxophone was, at once, his key to the world in which he found himself, and the way by which that world was rendered impotent to brand him either a failure or madman or Negro or saint.
The madman bum and angel beat inTime, unknown, yet putting down here what might be left to say in time come after death.
The tiny madman in his padded cell.
Midnight shakes the memory As a madman shakes a dead geranium.
The modern composer is a madman who persists in manufacturing an article which nobody wants.
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