The phrase "demented for" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English to describe someone who is obsessed or crazy about something.
It is often used as an informal or slang expression. Example: She is demented for designer handbags; she will do anything to get her hands on the latest collection.
In the US, women went completely demented for it.
With so much unfinished business in Helmand, it seems slightly demented for British commanders and politicians to argue that the UK's main effort should shift now to Kandahar.
Of this group, those who went on to receive a diagnosis of dementia at the assessment interview were regarded as demented for this analysis.
They're experimenting with speeding up and slowing down the timeline, trotting out unlikable characters and testing our tolerance for crazy, for demented, for morbid.
Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we will be demented – particularly for those of us aged between 40 and 65.
7, 8, 23, 24 The hazard ratio of death increased from 1.82 for the very mildly demented to 9.52 for severely demented patients.
The stage business is appropriately demented, the dialogue for Groucho is echt Groucho.
Although inevitably indebted to American models, Headhunters is firmly rooted in the Scandinavian experience, and it moves with the speed of a demented lemming heading for the cliff-edge of a fjord.
At first, I wasn't sure whether Philip Rham, playing a pig-infatuated paterfamilias, didn't emit rather too demented a gleam for this sort of show; the actor looks at the start as if he is would rather be playing Sweeney Todd.
For demented individuals who could not give informed consent because of their degree of cognitive impairment, a surrogate consenting procedure was used.
6 Community-based care for demented elderly individuals is assumed to entail considerably more services and to involve special problems, with a high risk of breakdown leading to nursing home placement and an increased burden on family caregivers.
