Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Affected with or having a tendency to pyromania: as, pyromaniacal persons.
- Caused by pyromaniacs: as, pyromaniacal fires.
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- adjective Of or relating to
pyromania .
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Examples
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Watch Albert Trummer perform his fireball maneuver on an episode of "Real Housewives of New York City" -- which likely drew the fire marshal's attention to the pyromaniacal antics at Apotheke:
Albert Trummer, Apotheke Barkeep, Arrested For Fireball Stunt 2010
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At work in this series of destructions is the familiar, pyromaniacal frustration of a kid at odds with the world and its architected environments -- the many rooms we inhabit and are fitted into -- especially those delimiting our sexual and professional identities.
Andrew Gorin: Childhood, Violence, and Alien Mating Practices: James Franco's "The Dangerous Book Four Boys" Andrew Gorin 2010
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Sherman defied this sense of military restraint almost from the beginning; in fact, his earliest pyromaniacal urges in connection with Southerners and their property seem to have developed in 1862, while he was in charge of the recently captured city of Memphis.
The Torching of Atlanta Winston Groom 2009
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On the other hand, Wall-E is always the vulnerable one, and EVE has aggressive pyromaniacal tendencies which all my girl friends loved.
Masculinity and Femininity in Robotics » Sociological Images 2009
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The check-bouncing saga moved from a General Accounting Office report to Roll Call (the local newspaper of Capitol Hill) to the conservative Washington Times to USA Today, which serves as kindling for the pyromaniacal radio talk-show hosts.
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If it ever warms up again I want to go camping but have someone else do all the packing and unpacking and I want to sit by the campfire and have a big fat poker stick to satisfy my pyromaniacal tendencies and if I get too stinky from the smoke I'll go jump in the lake which will be warm because the sun will have been out for months warming it up.
kelsi Diary Entry kelsi 2008
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All conversation ceased at the onset of this little pyromaniacal display, and he sensed himself the object of apprehensive surveillance.
Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates Robbins, Tom 2000
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All conversation ceased at the onset of this little pyromaniacal display, and he sensed himself the object of apprehensive surveillance.
Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates Robbins, Tom 2000
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The celebration involves a pyromaniacal lighting of a fuel cell inside the balloon.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Diya Luke 2011
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Audience members can also check out a choreographed pyromaniacal show with whip-cracking, flame-eating acrobats or Bendy Em, who performs "comic contortions of epic proportions" by squeezing herself into a 16-inch box.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed TOM HAWTHORN 2011
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