Definitions
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- adv. In a compulsive manner; obsessively.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- adv. By compulsion; by force.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- By or under compulsion; by force; compulsorily.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adv. in a compulsive manner
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Examples
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But as Kevin compulsively applied plaster to the sample boards like frosting to a cake — painting, spreading, smoothing, scraping — he couldn’t get the aged marine paint effect he was hoping for.
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If one were to be sitting all day, compulsively, that is equally absurd as far as the body's construction is concerned.
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But, unfortunately I see a lot of people began to eat kind of compulsively and gain weight.
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And doesn’t cloistered mean, you know, not wandering up and down the aisles at Barnes & Noble or Googling your own name compulsively, checking out your own publicity?
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Serious illness and its attendant surgical procedures have spawned all sorts of odd behaviors, such as compulsively checking awfulplasticsurgery. com and watching cheesy medical reality shows.
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Otherwise I would be endlessly rewriting the past, what has already been and left the barn, which seems a kind of compulsively maniacal nightmare.
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I can agree, for example, that a lot of runners have "bizarre preoccupation" with food and are "compulsively" athletic -- and see myself in a lot of what the authors describe, really -- but good luck finding useful clinical criteria for these."
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I arrived about 20 minutes early for the showing, because I'm compulsively punctual and because I actually hoped to have a few minutes before the movie to read that day's newspaper.
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Amis compulsively offers himself the jester in an otherwise earnest ring.
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It seems like the difficulty of your task is making something that's compulsively watchable and eccentric without insulting your subjects.
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