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US
/ˈmædˌhaʊs/
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[ UK /mˈædhaʊs/ ]
[ UK /mˈædhaʊs/ ]
NOUN
- pejorative terms for an insane asylum
How To Use madhouse In A Sentence
- But in the madhouse there is sometimes less madness than in real life as Antonio's ‘change’ demonstrates.
- The patients were held to basic standards of decent behavior and made to do chores in an environment more like a disciplined summer camp (or a well-run college group home) than a madhouse or hospital.
- Anyway, according to Peig, that's where all the insane went before there was such a thing as a madhouse or an asylum.
- Inside, it smelled more like a madhouse than a clinic.
- With four small children running around, the place is a madhouse.
- Welcome to the madhouse that is the build-up to the opening night of a pantomime.
- Both of them are at school, so it's a madhouse getting ready before we leave.
- “It was a madhouse,” he tells me unspecifically, neither lying nor telling the truth. Chuck Klosterman on Rock
- Asked if he would stay on as head coach, Obradovic said: ‘That would lead me straight to a madhouse.’
- He is amazed that Sonia has not succumbed to any of the three usual ways open for someone in her situation: the canal, the madhouse, or total submission to depravity.