What is "paranoic"

Usage examples of "paranoic".

As she poured herself some lemonade, her mind shied away from the reality of her almost paranoic dread of this quarterly ordeal.

Now just let some paranoic neighbor look out the window and scream for the police.

Many years before, he had been assigned to a full month of electronic surveillance and it had left him slightly paranoic on the subject.

These factors, he alleged, and the revolting spectacles offered by our streets, hideous publicity posters, religious ministers of all denominations, mutilated soldiers and sailors, exposed scorbutic cardrivers, the suspended carcases of dead animals, paranoic bachelors and unfructified duennas--these, he said, were accountable for any and every fallingoff in the calibre of the race.

Absolute dictatorship under a king or paranoic leader, they employ witch-doctors, medicine men and morally and hygienically they are so many beasts.

But for him our paranoic friend might have plunged us into something from which we could never have extricated ourselves.

I kept my voice low, paranoic about anyone overhearing our conversation, even though the place was nearly empty.