Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- By or under compulsion; by force; compulsorily.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb By compulsion; by force.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a
compulsive manner;obsessively .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb 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.
Desk jockeys rising up, putting chairs out of a job Michael S. Rosenwald 2010
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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.
Those with a desk job, please stand up Michael S. Rosenwald 2010
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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.
Those with a desk job, please stand up Michael S. Rosenwald 2010
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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.
Those with a desk job, please stand up Michael S. Rosenwald 2010
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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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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.
The Morning News 2009
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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.
The Cult anxious phoenix 2009
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