Meanings of demented creature in English

King Philip the Fifth was a hypochondriac, a half- demented creature, almost a madman.

The knife fell into the sea, and the demented creature collapsed and followed it, knocked unconscious.

At one time I despaired (we all despaired) of quieting the poor, demented creature.

Small wonder that she had deemed him repressive, she told herself, for she looked like a demented creature.

From the limp fingers of the demented creature who sat gazing at his two victims, the envelope fluttered down.

She was no longer a pariah, an outcast, a poor, half- demented creature, insentient save for an infinite capacity for suffering.

I mean the poor half- demented creature who happened to come into the room when you were talking with the owner?

Little wonder, for if a fiend could embody itself in a woman, this demented creature would leave nothing for the imagination.

Coming, as it had, like a curse from the lips of this wretched, half- demented creature, it filled his soul with dismay.

Dot shrieked again, shrieked like a demented creature, and in a moment, with hands flung wide, she was fleeing across the sun-baked yard.

Or it might be Wandering Willie-hegoes to see her sometimes, and the demented creature might strike up his pipes at any unearthly hour.

And then the poor demented creature of a drunken doctor contrived again to get hold of drink, and was far more outrageous this time.

If it hadn't have been for these demented creatures she might ha' lived for years.

The entire history of humanity, replete with tortures, ecstasies, and massacres, is the history of raving, demented creatures.

Late that night we exchanged clothes with two poor, demented creatures who retained sufficient reason, however, to realise that our uniforms meant freedom....

"Monsieur," the hotel manager replied, "some poor demented creature who has doubtless lost his all, in your absence found his way there and committed suicide."