Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Offensive Slang Schizophrenic or schizoid.
- adjective Slang Characterized by the coexistence of disparate or antagonistic elements.
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- adjective slang , (
offensive )schizoid ,schizophrenic
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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On the assumption that you too can handle a schizy reality -- Polanski did a bad thing and hasn't quite resolved it; he's made a magnificent movie -- let's press on to the film itself.
Jesse Kornbluth: Got a Problem With Roman Polanksi? See The Ghost Writer Anyway. It's A Masterpiece. 2010
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On the assumption that you too can handle a schizy reality -- Polanski did a bad thing and hasn't quite resolved it; he's made a magnificent movie -- let's press on to the film itself.
Got a Problem With Roman Polanksi? See The Ghost Writer Anyway. It's A Masterpiece. 2010
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His real achievement, though, is effortlessly synthesizing a dizzying array of dissonant phenomena (Cold War espionage, ecstatic religiosity), incongruous pairings (Darwinism, Tantric sex), and otherwise schizy ephemera (psychedelic drugs, spaceflight) into a cogent, satisfyingly complete narrative.
Cover to Cover 2007
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BEHAR: You ` re sort of a schizy (ph) on it because you ` re a trasher and then a kiss-ass.
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His real achievement, though, is effortlessly synthesizing a dizzying array of dissonant phenomena (Cold War espionage, ecstatic religiosity), incongruous pairings (Darwinism, Tantric sex), and otherwise schizy ephemera (psychedelic drugs, spaceflight) into a cogent, satisfyingly complete narrative.
Cover to Cover 2007
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Today I'm schizy about putting Prologues in my books.
July 2006 2006
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This evening, I realized my thinking had gotten a bit schizy.
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This evening, I realized my thinking had gotten a bit schizy.
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Marco Brambilla, a novice director, can't begin to mesh the schizy mixture of headbanging violence, future-shock satire and Hollywood in-jokes.
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Today I'm schizy about putting Prologues in my books.
QUIBBLES & BITS 2006
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