Antonyms for mad-dog

Grammar : Adj

Definition of mad-dog

As in rabid : adj very angry; maniacal

Example sentences :

It was a relapse of its former distemper, that is, of the bite of the mad-dog.
Extract from : « Medicine in Virginia, 1607-1699 » by Thomas P. Hughes

But as soon as the mad-dog scare started the girls were all very careful about letting Tom Jonah go off the premises.
Extract from : « The Corner House Girls Growing Up » by Grace Brooks Hill

I fear, Senor Dictator, that your pledge to see me across the frontier will not avail against that mad-dog mob.
Extract from : « Bucky O'Connor » by William MacLeod Raine

In one glance he recognized, not a mad-dog, but an abused, frightened creature running for its life.
Extract from : « White Dandy; or, Master and I » by Velma Caldwell Melville

Once in ten thousand times, at the very most, a mad-dog hue-and-cry is justified.
Extract from : « Buff: A Collie and other dog-stories » by Albert Payson Terhune

Philip had sworn to die like a mad-dog before he would surrender his fortresses, but he yielded ultimately without a blow.
Extract from : « The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 9 » by Various

I haue an excellent balme to cure anie that is bitten with Martin mad-dog.
Extract from : « Elizabethan and Jacobean Pamphlets » by Various

A braver way—like a Travis—with my boots on—my boots on—and not like a mad-dog tied to a stake.
Extract from : « The Bishop of Cottontown » by John Trotwood Moore

Many of the citizens were in a mad-dog fury because Flynn had not licked Johnson.
Extract from : « Adventures While Preaching the Gospel of Beauty » by Nicholas Vachel Lindsay

Synonyms for mad-dog

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