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The word 'madman' is correct and usable in written English.
It is used to describe a person who is mentally ill or unstable, usually in a violent, threatening, or insane way. Example sentence: The police had to intervene when the madman began to make threatening gestures with a knife.
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madman
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A male who is insane or mentally disturbed.
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The madman must be stopped so that everyday larceny can continue.
In a moment of Romantic exhilaration Courbet portrays himself as a "madman", his face ecstatic and terrified.
It was the terrible act of a madman.
"[He] seems even more of a madman than Osama was, and he will want to prove himself by going on the attack soon," Karim Sabet, a businessman, commented to Reuters.
At the Republican convention, he asked "Do I forget the lessons of September 11th and take the word of a madman, or do I take action to defend our country?" No, says Mr Kerry: the war is a distraction from al-Qaeda and has created the very terrorist havens that the administration claimed to be acting to destroy.On this question, voters are undecided.
("Jesus! Did I say that?")Nixon's men wondered if this madman could be their bridge to the alienated, war-hating young.
But the row over Mr Darkazanli, who was filmed at a wedding in Hamburg with two of the September 11th hijackers, reflects deeper problems facing all EU countries as they confront terrorism.In this section The fight within Oriana's thread In ENA we trust Who's the madman?
FORMER President Abdalá Bucaram, self-styled "loco", or madman, of Ecuadorean politics, ended eight years of exile in Panama by descending in a private helicopter on April 2nd to greet several thousand followers gathered below on the steamy streets of his home town, Guayaquil.
Spain's neighbour, Portugal, has demanded €6m in compensation from Madrid after water levels in the River Douro fell below limits in a bilateral agreement.In this section The fight within Oriana's thread In ENA we trust Who's the madman?
In 1999, seven churchgoers were shot dead by an obscenity-screaming madman in Fort Worth, who then killed himself.
At the heavily policed railway station, a helpful video shows what to do if an armed madman launches an attack.All this has taken a toll.
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