Pejorative terms for an insane asylum

Usage examples of madhouse.

Gone to join George Buffins in the great madhouse in the sky, no doubt.

And when the first frump blast exploded a glass counter full of jewelry to oblivion, the place became a madhouse of screaming, writhing insanity.

Well, sometimes Keelie and I talked about what a madhouse the city can be.

The archbishop, persuaded by his many well-written and well-reasoned letters, ordered one of his chaplains to learn from the superintendent of the madhouse if what the licentiate had written was true, and to speak to the madman as well, and, if it seemed he was in his right mind, to release him and set him free.

Uncle Vester can, is enough to drive the silly chucklehead into a madhouse!

The room was a madhouse, with ABA employees trying to herd the reporters and the reporters clearly wondering, more or less out loud, how they were going to manage to put together any kind of wordage at all.

Got a car outside and the sooner we get away from this blankety blank madhouse the better.

I assumed this place would be a madhouse of pols and newsies, with Li and his buddies trotting every one of their candidates through here, giving each of those clowns a chance to sound off for the electorate.

Even the Warreners, whose ancestors were gathered from the gutters and the madhouses and the prisons, have food and water, beds and shelter, clothing and protection, supplied by us from cradle to grave.

By this time Asuncion must have been like a madhouse, for no one seems to have been astonished, or even to have thought his conduct singular.

After a detention which lasted forty days, they escaped and fled to Corrientes, which must have looked upon Asuncion as a vast madhouse.

He was a close correspondent of the notorious Baudelairean poet Justin Geoffrey, who wrote The People of the Monolith and died screaming in a madhouse in 1926 after a visit to a sinister, ill-regarded village in Hungary.

Leia listened, to the budding argument fade away, for the umpteenth time thanking the Force that she was at least temporarily no longer the one in charge of this madhouse.

Benjamin Bathurst, who, until now, was well-behaved and seemed to take his confinement philosophically, should suddenly make this rash and fatal attempt, unless it was because of those infernal dunderheads of madhouse doctors who have been bothering him.

No, no she gave this answer emphatically to herself all marriages could not be like this, or else the madhouses would be more full than they were now.