pyromaniac

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Early Thursday, 19-year-old Roger Leon Barlow Jr. of Downingtown, described as a pyromaniac who liked to watch things burn, was charged with setting nine fires in the town of Coatesville, including a block-long blaze that displaced dozens of people last month.

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  1. Of, pertaining to, characterized by, or affected with pyromania.
  2. A person possessed of a mania or irresistible impulse to burn things. As pyromaniacs rarely incriminate themselves, it becomes the more important to study the many indications by which the diagnosis can be made by indirect examinations. Amer. Jour. Psychol., I. 191.

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  • "This guy's a real pyromaniac," Tom said to me, wiping his face on the sleeve of his father's parka which he was wearing over his own. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Four-Day Planet, by H. Beam Piper
  • Early Thursday, 19-year-old Roger Leon Barlow Jr. of Downingtown, described as a pyromaniac who liked to watch things burn, was charged with setting nine fires in the town of Coatesville, including a block-long blaze that displaced dozens of people last month. —  News/local from www.dailyamerican.com
  • Carroll called Barlow a pyromaniac, but declined to disclose evidence to support it, other than to say that Barlow enjoyed watching fires. —  News/local from www.dailyamerican.com
  • But far from your average YouTube-loitering pyromaniac, Gray combines sharp, lively writing with a gifted professor's knack for making the complex simple. —  Popular Science
  • Broussard flip-flopped, at first saying he did and then later saying he didn't; he stated, though, that he "knows how to make napalm" and that he is a "pyromaniac." —  WWLTV.com Top Stories
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