wild-eyed

English

Adjective

wild-eyed (comparative more wild-eyed, superlative most wild-eyed)

1. Having a glaring expression suggesting madness or terror.
   • 1989 December 10, Zane Gilstrap, “Speculations About Why We're Gay”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 22, page 5:

     A better study it seems to me could be about why some heteros are so wild-eyed obsessed with us, their hate, the kind of leaders they choose to follow in their greed and prejudice, and their need for someone to persecute.

   • 2004, Scott Westerfeld, So yesterday:

     In the mirror a wild-eyed, peroxided stranger who had clearly gone insane stared back at me.