How to Use neurotic in a Sentence

neurotic

1 of 2 adjective

• 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

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024