maniacal

a maniacal interest in gambling.

He has a maniacal obsession with collecting vintage comic books.

The maniacal laughter coming from the haunted house sent shivers down my spine.

She had a maniacal look in her eyes as she plotted her revenge.

The maniacal driver sped through red lights without a care in the world.

His maniacal behavior at the party made everyone uncomfortable.

The maniacal killer left a trail of destruction in his wake.

The maniacal scientist conducted dangerous experiments in his lab.

Her maniacal laughter echoed through the empty halls of the old mansion.

The maniacal fan screamed with excitement when her favorite team won the championship.

The maniacal look on his face made it clear that he had lost his grip on reality.

He developed for the Beta blonde an exclusive and maniacal passion.

" Professor Slughorn, " wheezed Filch, his jowls aquiver and the maniacal light of mischief-detection in his bulging eyes.

Great-hearted gentlemen, or maniacal monster, or something in between?

The result was Gritty, a 7-foot-tall orange brute with bulging eyes and a maniacal grin.

Rather our brains are just so fine-tuned to pick out language that we can't help but hear words in their maniacal screams.

The Mother's Day we celebrate on the second Sunday in May exists largely due to the incessant efforts—some might say maniacal single-mindedness—of a woman named Anna Jarvis.

Also beggars. And among the beggars New York's status competition is renewed , there in the much-despised subway. On the Seventh Avenue IRT line the competition is maniacal .

All his maniacal anger was directed against the scoundrels who dishonoured his trade by selling cheap trashy articles, which dogs, said he, would not consent to use.

It is the more painful because it is a distorted love, a maniacal exaggerated love for you, and possibly for his dead mother, which has prompted his action.

He took the title Nero on the urging of  the people of Rome, a development which casts into doubt the depiction of the original Nero as a  maniacal tyrant.