NEUROTIC in a Sentence

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It ended, a quarter of an hour later, in his calling her a "neurotic" before he turned away and pretended to sleep.

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 Meanings and Examples of NEUROTIC
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neurotic
 a.  of or pertaining to the nerves; seated in the nerves; nervous
Classic Sentence:
1  The grocer, his clerk, and neurotic Mrs. Dave Dyer had been giggling about something.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
2  It ended, a quarter of an hour later, in his calling her a "neurotic" before he turned away and pretended to sleep.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
Example Sentence:
1  Here, we can see how the author to depict Beatle John Lennon as a drug-crazed neurotic.
2  If they get through that period without becoming neurotic or worse, they're usually all right from then on.