The phrase "deranged for" is correct and can be used in written English.
It typically means that someone is acting in a disturbed or irrational manner due to a certain cause or trigger. Example: After losing her job, Sarah became deranged for weeks, isolating herself from friends and family.
I've since found true love with someone who doesn't read many books, but doesn't consider me deranged for doing so.
But he went national, and since failing in the 2008 primaries he has retreated to a semiprivate life, occasionally popping up with utterances that make him sound borderline deranged — for instance: "I know this is a horrible thing to say, but I do not believe that the President loves America….
But he went national, and since failing in the 2008 primaries he has retreated to a semiprivate life, occasionally popping up with utterances that make him sound borderline deranged — for instance: "I know this is a horrible thing to say, but I do not believe that the President loves America...
Am I deranged for feeling sad about all the news I'm missing out on?
He is a trumpeting rallying cry for the deranged, for the heckling mutants in SUVs, for an America that doesn't need a man who's right but one who doesn't care if he's right.
Most telling of all, each director was stuck wrangling famously deranged actors – for Coppola it was Brando, for Herzog Klaus Kinski – who were becoming monstrous personifications of the madness and menace surrounding the projects.
Still, the dish ($11) is a bold, possibly deranged choice for a first-date dinner (unless you met on Chowhound).
The workouts were optional, but skipped workouts were rare; the camp was nirvana, albeit a deranged version, for us overachievers.
They look as though they were produced by a methodical but possibly deranged researcher for some obscure scholarly or scientific purpose.
They look as if they were produced by a methodical but possibly deranged researcher for some obscure scholarly or scientific purpose.
Bishop Rudy Carlton, of Full Gospel Baptist Church Fellowship, in Newark, began with a prayer for our broken hearts, and for Clementa Pinckney, the pastor of Emanuel A.M.E., who died "because of senseless behavior by someone who is deranged," and for the Pinckney family.
