insane asylum

noun

now usually offensive
: a hospital for people with mental illness : a mental hospital

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Not to mention, both songs’ music videos take place in an insane asylum. — Quentin Thane Singer, Forbes.com, 16 May 2026 For Fester, getting committed to an insane asylum is a total cakewalk. — Jessica M. Goldstein, Vulture, 6 Aug. 2025 In Puscifer, any idea can totally change without any preciousness, and everybody is on board — not unlike an insane asylum. — Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 21 Oct. 2025 Still ahead of her were European wanderings; the death of her youngest son, Tad (from pleurisy, at eighteen); and a brief confinement in an Illinois insane asylum. — Thomas Mallon, New Yorker, 18 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for insane asylum

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