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• Tripping herself up with sadder and more and more neurotic acts of self-despair.2007, Alexander Theroux, chapter 45, in Laura Warholic. From the entry self-despair
• She looked very neurotic, moving in a jerky way, her body giving little twitches of habitual umbrage.1960, Muriel Spark, chapter 10, in The Bachelors, London: Macmillan. From the entry umbrage
• Mature adults who seek to perpetrate this myth reveal themselves as incomplete and neurotic personalities.1947, Valentine Davies, chapter 10, in Miracle on 34th Street, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, →OCLC, page 63. From the entry Kris Kringle
• To see your identity in any single trait – introvert, extrovert, or neurotic – is to limit your life.2016 November 1, Drake Baer, “Are you an introvert or an extrovert? It’s more complicated than that”, in CNN, archived from the original…. From the entry extrovert
• Orgastic potency is always lacking in neurotic individuals.2015, Charles Konia, The Emotional Plague: The Root of Human Evil, →ISBN. From the entry orgastic potency
• Neurotic, obsessive-compulsive, infantile-arrested, stuporous melancholia, hebephrenic schizophrenia, barythymia, poikilothymia.2012, George Gurley, George & Hilly: The Anatomy of a Relationship, page 87. From the entry barythymia
• So what if it's completely neurotic and emotionally unhealthy.2004, Chuck Smith, Columbia College Chicago, Seven Black Plays, page 399. From the entry Sigmund
• It is not what may be termed 'nomophobia' (neurotic fear of law or command) though much of that is about.2002, Stanley E. Porter, Anthony R. Cross, Dimensions of baptism: biblical and theological studies, →ISBN, page 247. From the entry nomophobia
• You could get really neurotic if you listened to everything that people say about you when you concede a goal.1996, Jason Tomas, White Heat: The Leeds United Dream Team, →ISBN, page 163. From the entry ricket
• The psychoneurotic (often simplified to neurotic) person has an inner conflict that may lead to depression or anxiety.1962 July 23, “Mental Clinic Offering 24-Hour Emergency Aid; New Roosevelt Hospital Unit Acts on Immediate Needs for Psychiatric Care”, in…. From the entry psychoneurotic
• Doctor, you have stated that you assumed that there are many people walking the streets who are neurotic.1951, New York Court of Appeals, Records and Briefs, New York Court of Appeals, page 546. From the entry walk the streets
• He probably thought she was an overprotective, neurotic mother who couldn't see past the end of her nose where her son was concerned.2011, Carrie Turansky, chapter 14, in Along Came Love, →ISBN. From the entry see past the end of one's nose
• Signor Bruschino was updated from a generic buffo character to an oily, scholarly-looking, suit-clad neurotic, excellently acted and sung by Marco Nistico.2007 January 27, Vivien Schweitzer, “Young Lovers, a Vespa and a Frolic by Rossini”, in New York Times. From the entry buffo
• The A.B.V and similar devices used often by psychologists to attempt to measure neurotic instability instrumently will have to be validated in general practice.2006, Family Medicine - Page 113. From the entry instrumently
• The ophiophobic Indy also has a touchingly neurotic streak (played down in later films), which counterbalances the mounting absurdity of his relentless adventures.2005, Alec Worley, Empires of the Imagination: A Critical Survey of Fantasy Cinema from Georges Méliès to, The Lord of the Rings…. From the entry ophiophobic
• The childish, immature, or neurotic superego is rigid; it is characterized by slavish adherence to rules which, moreover, may not be clearly understood.1974, Thomas S. Szasz, chapter 9, in The Myth of Mental Illness, →ISBN, page 152. From the entry superego
• A primary symptom in Parkinsonism, but also manifest at higher levels, as gegenhalten (paratonic rigidity), catatonic rigidity, hysterical rigidity, and neurotic rigidities and obstinacies.1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings. From the entry paratonic
• But these attitudes in male writers were taken for granted, accepted as sound philosophical bases, as quite normal, certainly not as womanhating, aggressive or neurotic.1962, Doris Lessing, quoted in Liberating Literature, page 83. From the entry womanhating
• They take the form of excessive intellectualization, an unbalanced critical attitude, constriction, neurotic qualifications, and wishfulfilling fantasy activity of a pathological nature.1954, Pennsylvania State University, Abstracts of Doctoral Dissertations Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the…. From the entry wishfulfilling
• Eycmans, Fr., suggests that heroinomaniacs may soon add to the army of neurotics, and cautions pharmacists as to the sale of these dangerous medicaments.1912, United States Congressional Serial Set, page 429. From the entry heroinomaniac
• We may note with some surprise that the hysteria scale has a positive loading on this factor, i.e. is situated towards the normal rather than the neurotic end.2013, H. J. Eysenck, Experiments in Personality, volume 2, page 238. From the entry loading
• JD went from being a little emotionally needy to a whiny man-child and Elliot became every negative stereotype about women instead of her usual neurotic but lovable self.2009 June 7, tmc1982 [username], “Seasonal Rot – Television Tropes & Idioms”, in rec.arts.tv (Usenet). From the entry flanderization
• Not at ease in calling for their creative wits they remained stuck with the trivial epithet "Euro", which by then a good deal of Europeans had turned nEurotic at.1998 March 19, Wugi, “Calling the single currency names”, in talk.politics.european-union (Usenet), archived from the original on 19 Jun…. From the entry fathren
• Six's view of much touted open-door policies: “‘My door is always open—bring me your problems.’ This is guaranteed to turn on every whiner, lackey and neurotic on the property.”1986 August 24, Edwin McDowell, “What's New on the Corporate Bookshelf”, in New York Times, retrieved 15 Jan 2016. From the entry open-door policy
• This poor fellow who is desperately neurotic to the point of being amnesic, and wandering in and out of fugues, as bad off as he was?1985, Walker Percy, Lewis A. Lawson, Victor A. Kramer, Conversations with Walker Percy, page 111. From the entry bad off
• Before he had met this one, Morgan had assumed that people called Chloe were either the neurotic brilliant daughters of Oxbridge dons or else silly screaming debutantes.1981, William Boyd, A Good Man in Africa, H.Hamilton, →ISBN, page 24. From the entry Chloe
• The misimplication is to assume that the ordinary logic of treatment applicable to the neurotic child can be applied to the borderline or psychotic chile, as well.1976, Rudolf Ekstein, In Search of Love and Competence, page 157. From the entry misimplication
• It is here that the illness begins and comes over and over again in repeated schizophrenic attacks, cyclophrenic phases, narcopathic leanings, neurotic breakdowns and psychopathic conflicts.1973, Nikola Shipkovenski, “Principles of Psychiatric Rehabilitation and Their Realisation in Bulgaria”, in International Journal of…. From the entry narcopathic
• You are a clown and a coward, Kirby Winter — a lousy, neurotic, mixed-up coward, and yet you go around making women believe you’re a gay dog.1962, John D. MacDonald, (Please provide the book title or journal name). From the entry gay dog
• The neurotic symptom in itself does not have solely the significance of repelling a drive for it also is a means of satisfying a desire in a clandescent manner.1940, Journal of Criminal Psychopathology, volume 2, page 96. From the entry clandescent
• These actions may become symbolical, lose the traces of their origins, and thus prevent a superficial un-understandability in a manner not dissimilar to the compulsions of some neurotics.1935, James Wroten Woodard, Reificationand Supernaturalism as Factors in Social Rigidity and Social Change, Philadelphia, Pa.: University…. From the entry un-understandability
• I have no patience with the modern neurotic girl who jazzes from morning to night, smokes like a chimney, and uses language which would make a Billingsgate fishwoman blush!1923, Agatha Christie, The Murder on the Links. From the entry jazz
• Yet if “overcivilized” is synonymous with “educated,” which could equal “having too much information,” which could make anyone neurotic, then it could also be said that city women are overcivilized.2007 January 28, Tina Cassidy, “Cut and Run”, in New York Times. From the entry overcivilized

Meaning of neurotic

1. adjective Affected with a neurosis.
2. adjective Overly anxious.
3. adjective Useful in disorders of, or affecting, the nerves.

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Questions about neurotic in a sentence

How do you use neurotic in a sentence?

Neurotic is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “He is getting neurotic about time-keeping.”

What is a short sentence with neurotic?

“You're so terribly neurotic, Bertie.”

What does neurotic mean?

Neurotic means affected with a neurosis.