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as in angry
feeling or showing anger the constant harassment from telemarketers finally made her good and mad

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Recent Examples of mad
Adjective
Feminists have always been mad at horny guys writing. John McDermott, Rolling Stone, 6 July 2025 Remember those highly sexualized ‘90s thrillers where our stoic leading man is threatened and nearly killed by a crazed woman driven mad by desire? Stephen Schaefer, Boston Herald, 4 July 2025 In the ’60s, my grandma came straight to Los Angeles from Mississippi with mad kids. Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 27 June 2025 Sit down in Geneva or Vienna or Qatar and fully and permanently surrender this mad nightmare to acquire nukes, or face more of the same devastation. New York Daily News, Twin Cities, 26 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for mad
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mad
Adjective
  • Most of the time, Superman is depressed or angry or getting beat to a pulp or having cans thrown at him or getting arrested.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 9 July 2025
  • Others were frustrated—some even outright angry—that the Commission fell short of declaring all forms of obesity a disease and instead recommended a more nuanced clinical diagnosis.
    Francesco Rubino, Time, 9 July 2025
Adjective
  • Amanda learned in like 10 seconds, which is insane.
    Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Mar. 2025
  • If 51% of the population is being so underserved, the ratio to opportunity is insane.
    Gemma Allen, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • For Bertram, whose family winery has roots deep in the terraced vineyards of the valley, the night was a blur of frantic decisions and terrifying uncertainty.
    Christopher Elliott, Forbes.com, 13 July 2025
  • Huntington Park High School Principal Carlos Garibaldi was preparing to host a graduation on his campus when frantic colleagues radioed him: Immigration is coming.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2025
Adjective
  • Instead, the series seems determined to prove that age is just a number by forcing its leads, now including Choudhury and Parker, to act as if 50 is the new (and very stupid) 30.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 4 July 2025
  • Jurassic Park, based on the Michael Crichton best-seller, is an evolutionary joke: Man, the master of the universe, has become mere flesh, consumed by animals allegedly too stupid to survive.
    David Denby, Vulture, 3 July 2025
Noun
  • Though Trump is backing away from Putin in public, he’s never specifically projected anger about the paused weapons for Ukraine.
    Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 9 July 2025
  • Music and song have changed the world in positive, enduring ways that fear, anger, and violence never have.
    Chris John Amorosino, Hartford Courant, 8 July 2025
Verb
  • Trump left Washington in January 2021 infuriated with Netanyahu, bitter that the Israeli leader had backed out of a planned joint operation to assassinate an Iranian general and had congratulated Joe Biden on his election victory.
    Eric Cortellessa, Time, 8 July 2025
  • But his veto of an affordable housing bill that had been drafted largely to his specifications infuriated lawmakers.
    Mark Pazniokas, Hartford Courant, 26 June 2025
Adjective
  • The counselor also told police Trotman had had a previous psychotic break in which he was found wandering the woods.
    Peter Hermann, Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2023
  • Lewis prescribed Price anti-psychotic medication after a mental health referral Sept. 1.
    Thomas Saccente, Arkansas Online, 17 Jan. 2023
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  • Lansing, the first woman to lead a Hollywood studio, was furious.
    Michael Grynbaum, HollywoodReporter, 14 July 2025
  • As a result of their negligence, a little boy who lives in the Flats dies, and Sodality is furious.
    Deborah Williams July 14, Literary Hub, 14 July 2025

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“Mad.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mad. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.

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