Usage examples (8)

• Excuse this maddish letter: I am too tired to write in formal --
• He loved her, but he would certainly take her to be moved by a maddish whim; he would not try to understand her case.
• He looked maddish with his love of the horrible thing, and resumed soberly: 'The point is, that she has the charm for me.
• When he got there, and asked if the jolly-jist was stirring yet, one servant snorted, and another grunted, till Joe got rather maddish; but at last one of them skipjacks...