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compulsive

adjective as in driving, obsessive

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Example Sentences

But it looks like it was created by crazed person with obsessive-compulsive behavior.

His detail seeking in our meetings is compulsive and a little nuts.

Sex and passion; compulsive, life-changing, soul-altering sex, all to be made more explicit than he had done in the past.

Compulsive writing, or hypergraphia, is a well-known, if uncommon, symptom of temporal lobe epilepsy.

“Obsessive-compulsive tendencies really help to enhance abilities,” Okun said.

Nowhere in the world, I am sure, does the "to be continued in our next" interest take hold on one with such a compulsive grip.

In the hopes of averting so abhorrent, but compulsive an alternative.

He still takes us by the throat, but his grip is not compulsive.

Political and legal differences can be settled either by amicable or by compulsive means.

War is very often enumerated among the compulsive means of settling international differences.

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On this page you'll find 18 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to compulsive, such as: enthusiastic, irresistible, passionate, uncontrollable, besetting, and compelling.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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