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  • Despite their worst efforts, we are alas denied the inestimable comic pleasure of watching David Cameron choke to death on Ruby's shell-strewn crab salad or mad-eyed Claudia's massively overspiced chilli con carne.

    Comic Relief's mix of mirth and misery done to a turn 2011

  • There's a similar sense of incidental chaos about Herzog's My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (2009, Scanbox, 15), a latter-day Greek tragedy in which a mad-eyed Michael Shannon kills his mother (Grace Zabriskie) and discovers God among the groceries while long-term Herzog team-player Brad Dourif holds forth on the cosmic significance of ostriches.

    Mark Kermode's DVD round-up Mark Kermode 2010

  • I just wanted to point out that Robert Pattinson is not only lusted after by 6 year olds and mad-eyed spinsters who want to break his legs and lock him a cupboard.

    Are Robert Pattinson & Kristen Stewart Having It Off Or What? 2009

  • Miliband is isolated, proselytising to the faithful about not “despairing” whilst caricaturing opponents as mad-eyed dissemblers.

    Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me 2010

  • Miliband is isolated, proselytising to the faithful about not “despairing” whilst caricaturing opponents as mad-eyed dissemblers.

    Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister? 2010

  • Miliband is isolated, proselytising to the faithful about not “despairing” whilst caricaturing opponents as mad-eyed dissemblers.

    It’s war! 2010

  • Miliband is isolated, proselytising to the faithful about not “despairing” whilst caricaturing opponents as mad-eyed dissemblers.

    It’s war! 2010

  • I am put in mind of Wilbur here, a prophet “mad-eyed with stating the obvious.”

    Poetry and Prophecy : A.E. Stallings : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

  • Based on the mad-eyed illegible yelps of the hecklerspray comments section, this season of American Idol might produce its biggest star yet in Adam Lambert, the man who apparently looks and sounds exactly like Elvis Presley, if Elvis Presley was a gay emo who had two giant metal plates scraping against each other instead of a singing voice.

    Simon Cowell’s Pendulous Manboobs To Leave American Idol? 2009

  • But, unlike you, there are lots of people who DO like them and they are not just “mad-eyed home-schooled lonely teenagers”.

    Are Robert Pattinson & Kristen Stewart Having It Off Or What? 2009

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