How to Use neurotic in a Sentence

neurotic

1 of 2 adjective
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  • He is neurotic about his job.
  • The psychiatrist diagnosed the patient as neurotic.
  • My neurotic mother scolded me for staying out 10 minutes past curfew.
  • A lot of them are called neurotic in the film and in criticisms of the film.
    — Vulture, 25 Jan. 2022
  • For a neurotic like me, the unknown would’ve torn my life to shreds.
    — Heather Havrilesky, The Cut, 9 May 2018
  • The treasure, of course, was the cause of neurotic symptoms, deeply buried in the unconscious.
    — Elizabeth Winkler, The New Yorker, 23 June 2023
  • Olivia Colman stars again as a neurotic on the verge of collapse.
    — Armond White, National Review, 9 Dec. 2022
  • Their aim is to spare us the need to have neurotic feelings about the problems of tomorrow.
    — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2023
  • The ultimate fate of the doctor’s neurotic trophy wife (Abbey Lee) is out of a B-movie.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 22 July 2021
  • Whitford won an Emmy for his role as the brash, somewhat neurotic deputy chief of staff.
    — Alex Apatoff, Peoplemag, 17 Nov. 2022
  • Too bookish and restrained for mainstream pop, too neurotic for punk, and too bright and structured for post-punk.
    — Brady Gerber, Vulture, 29 Mar. 2021
  • Dave follows a painfully neurotic white rapper on the come up.
    — Time, 29 June 2023
  • When the same actress took off the glasses and put on a headscarf, she was found to be more open, more conscientious, and less neurotic.
    — Gabriela Riccardi, Quartz, 26 May 2023
  • Fearful that the neurotic Florence might try to harm herself, Olive invites her to move in as her roommate.
    — Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 26 Sep. 2021
  • But there was also a neurotic element to frontman Justin Courtney Pierre’s lyrics that brought a smile to your face.
    — Troy L. Smith, cleveland, 2 Mar. 2022
  • For folks who know Menzies from, say, The Crown or as a cad on Outlander, this breezy yet befuddled and neurotic turn will be eye-opening.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 26 May 2023
  • But after 9/11, there was something oddly comforting about knowing the rest of the world was as neurotic as me.
    — Molly Jong-Fas, Vogue, 26 Aug. 2021
  • The first clip finds the neurotic young boy going about his day, repeating his voluminous list of fears as if a mantra.
    — Ben Croll, Variety, 13 June 2023
  • The benefits of being neurotic Some of the finding might not be all that surprising.
    — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 17 July 2019
  • In media, Jews tend to adhere to a narrow band of ethnic tropes: the nebbish, the neurotic, the overbearing mother.
    — Jamie Lauren Keiles, New York Times, 27 Nov. 2019
  • In other words, a dog’s stress levels would shift based on whether their owner was more or less neurotic, open and aware of their surroundings.
    — Mac Stone, Discover Magazine, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Many musicians will tell you that their instruments can be like neurotic guard dogs that sniff out fear.
    — Chris Fleming, SPIN, 4 Apr. 2023
  • Some of that came from humanity’s glorious sense of pluck — our need and amazing (or neurotic) ability to find the good in the bad.
    — Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar. 2021
  • And women who are in positions of power are not neurotic.
    — Jason Sheeler, Peoplemag, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Wood played many characters who were true-blue reliable, and others who were high-strung and neurotic.
    — Tim Gray, Variety, 20 July 2023
  • Then there was that strain of criticism which held that the sheer slickness of Steely Dan’s later records, their neurotic pursuit of perfection, was bad.
    — Chelsea Leu, The New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2022
  • Or slowly and painfully, like tens of millions of children tossed from school, lagging in math and reading, depressed and neurotic.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 29 Apr. 2021
  • Like Wilson, Lurie doesn’t just invite you into his neurotic headspace.
    — John Semley, The New Republic, 5 Feb. 2021
  • The Jinx is a wild, serpentine investigation into the deadly drive of a neurotic real estate heir who is riddled with delusions but can’t avoid the truth.
    — Eric Farwell, EW.com, 13 Dec. 2023
  • The first half of Little Death roots itself in Martin’s point of view and experiments with different animation techniques to relay the rhythm of his neurotic mind.
    — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Jan. 2024
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neurotic

2 of 2 noun
  • He is a neurotic about keeping his clothes neat.
  • He was diagnosed as a neurotic.
  • The eight-episode series follows Melissa (Rothwell), a fat, Black neurotic who’s never been in love.
    — Selome Hailu, Variety, 17 Nov. 2022
  • Learn about the connection between neurotics and Brexit.
    — Lacy Schley, Discover Magazine, 15 June 2018
  • But economy-class neurotics will have to make do while their shrink answers emails or knits cardigans during their sessions.
    — Joe Queenan, WSJ, 11 May 2018
  • Kruger has the moxie to play Marie as a standoffish neurotic, Nyong’o creates an unusually emotional hacker, and Cruz, as the one who’s more devoted to her family than to global realpolitik, proves the sweetest of wild cards.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 6 Jan. 2022
  • Seinfeld, which stars Jerry Seinfeld as a fictionalized version of himself, pokes fun at neurotics like Seinfeld and his friends, who overthink and worry about too many little things.
    — Nina Huang, EW.com, 1 May 2020
  • You are too much something for a tubercular neurotic who can only be jealous and mean and perverse.
    — F. Scott Fitzgerald, letter, 2 Dec. 1939
  • As a claustrophobe—perhaps the only kind of neurotic out of place in New York—I find nothing in the city more terrifying than a stalled subway car.
    — John Tierney, New York Times Magazine, 19 Mar. 1995
  • More than any rebirth, one senses in the England of 1911 a civilization's unconscious death wish, vividly present in the author's glimpses of the poet Rupert Brooke, that squeaky-clean neurotic, a casualty waiting to happen.
    — Thomas Mallon, New York Times Book Review, 27 May 2007
  • He is a neurotic about keeping his clothes neat.
  • He was diagnosed as a neurotic.
  • The eight-episode series follows Melissa (Rothwell), a fat, Black neurotic who’s never been in love.
    — Selome Hailu, Variety, 17 Nov. 2022
  • Learn about the connection between neurotics and Brexit.
    — Lacy Schley, Discover Magazine, 15 June 2018
  • But economy-class neurotics will have to make do while their shrink answers emails or knits cardigans during their sessions.
    — Joe Queenan, WSJ, 11 May 2018
  • Kruger has the moxie to play Marie as a standoffish neurotic, Nyong’o creates an unusually emotional hacker, and Cruz, as the one who’s more devoted to her family than to global realpolitik, proves the sweetest of wild cards.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 6 Jan. 2022
  • Seinfeld, which stars Jerry Seinfeld as a fictionalized version of himself, pokes fun at neurotics like Seinfeld and his friends, who overthink and worry about too many little things.
    — Nina Huang, EW.com, 1 May 2020
  • You are too much something for a tubercular neurotic who can only be jealous and mean and perverse.
    — F. Scott Fitzgerald, letter, 2 Dec. 1939
  • As a claustrophobe—perhaps the only kind of neurotic out of place in New York—I find nothing in the city more terrifying than a stalled subway car.
    — John Tierney, New York Times Magazine, 19 Mar. 1995
  • More than any rebirth, one senses in the England of 1911 a civilization's unconscious death wish, vividly present in the author's glimpses of the poet Rupert Brooke, that squeaky-clean neurotic, a casualty waiting to happen.
    — Thomas Mallon, New York Times Book Review, 27 May 2007

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