Tilda Swinton

I remember noticing, when I had my babies, how much I liked them, and not just loved them, but I was really into them. I knew I was going to be curious about them and up for the mayhem ahead. But at the same time, I remember noticing I was relieved this thing was present in me. And I hadn't realised there might be a doubt.

English Actress

Michael D. Barnes

They have some pretty tough gun laws in Japan, as they do in any other civilized country in the world, and they're not killing each other off with firearms. You have very violent films in Europe, yet it's not causing the mayhem we see in our streets routinely here.

American Politician

Linwood Barclay

These days, my subjects are murder and mayhem and other terrible things that happen to people - things that are even worse than cutting yourself shaving. And these are not the sorts of things you feel the need to experience before you write about them.

Canadian Author

Jocko Willink

One of the key qualities a leader must possess is the ability to detach from the chaos, mayhem, and emotions in a situation and make good, clear decisions based on what is actually happening.

American

Grant Imahara

As a former competitor, robot combat is near and dear to my heart. I enjoy the mix of creativity and mayhem that are essential to this sport.

American Celebrity

Ted Wheeler

If you intend to use our beautiful city to cause mayhem, disturb the peace, create fear and commit violence, you are not welcome here.

Cher

I went through absolute stress and mayhem. I couldn't go out, because people were constantly on my back all the time.

American Musician

Dan Hill

Our house is a constant mayhem of music, noise, socializing and business. It vibrates life, as a house should.

Canadian Musician

Johan Renck

I like being out on a limb and not know what we're doing and why: just deal with it, the mayhem, you know?

Swedish Director

Tony Bellew

I want to cause havoc. I want to cause mayhem - and I mean the worst mayhem you can see.

British Athlete

Mayhem implies something bad and undesirable has happened, leading to disarray.

Negative Connotation

People sometimes use 'mayhem' to describe situations that are very disorganized, not just chaotic.

Metaphorical Use

'Mayhem' can describe emotional or virtual chaos, not just physical confusion.

Not Always Physical

Using 'mayhem' suggests a high level of intensity and damage in violent incidents.

Intensity Matters

'Mayhem' often evokes fear or shock, especially when relating to violent events.

Emotional Impact

Mayhem usually results from actions, either planned or spontaneous, that lead to violence.

Action Resulting

Legally, 'mayhem' is a serious crime and involves intentional harm with lasting effects.

Legal Seriousness

Legally, 'mayhem' involves specific types of injury, typically permanent disfigurement.

Specific Harm

In legal terms, 'mayhem' refers to an act that disables a part of the victim's body.

Physical Disabling

 wildlife including the koala koala the kangaroo and the platypus if I were put in charge of the earth for an entire day I'd actually have two top priorities not just one one of those two is world peace I'd do that by banning all weapons there's a lot of mayhem going on this

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 leaving some messes untied heed and some questions unanswered so much beauty can come from chaos but it's not the obvious kind it's subtle and dazzling and yes uncontrollable it was mayhem that healed me but I was i chaos deficient well as

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 attacked he looked down grabbed his right leg and when he looked down he purely said oh my god fischer would die hours later but the mayhem was not over yet a little farther along the creek another boy named joseph dunn was pulled under

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 When showing possession, the apostrophe belongs next to the noun that owns or possesses something. The noun can be singular or plural. Proper nouns work, too. So if Lucy needs to get her robots under control before they cause mayhem,

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 humans. But overall, given the number of humans and given the number of coyotes, it's still a very rare phenomenon. Why would a group of coyotes attack a human is a bit of a mystery. At that point, it was just mayhem.

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 You can see the mayhem continues, and there's, you know, there were no clarinets and trumpets and flutes and violins. Here's a piece that has an even more unusual, more peculiar instrumentation.

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 Sadly, realizing that no one would be prosecuted for her boy's death, she sank into a deep depression and she died. But I'll never forget how, in the chaos and mayhem,

Racism thrives on...

 staring right back at me. And guess who woke up? So the Panic Monster starts losing his mind, and a few seconds later, the whole system's in mayhem.

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 What has the War on Drugs done to the world? Look at the murder and mayhem in Mexico, Central America, so many other parts of the planet,

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 jungle mayhem ahead mystery completely you know what mr. Ibrahim this is the kind of moment of life where it's a good

Mayhem

A situation of chaos or confusion.

Often appears as...

Violent behavior causing damage or injury.

Often appears as...

In law, the crime of intentionally causing injury to a person, leading to physical disabling.

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Usage tips

Negative Connotation

Metaphorical Use

Not Always Physical

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