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- noun Plural form of
retentive .
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Examples
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Is that an ironic misspelling, to help weed out the anal retentives?
BSNYC Firday Fun Quiz! BikeSnobNYC 2009
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Back in the days of Web 1.0, Euro head shrink Sigmund Freud coined a term for these people: email-retentives.
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What anal-retentives do for fun — every so often I like to go through my iTunes library and take note of examples where I have three or more versions of the same song.
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Are anal retentives to toilet paper as cacti are to water?
What can you say about those atheists who believe in God? Ann Althouse 2008
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What anal-retentives do for fun — every so often I like to go through my iTunes library and take note of examples where I have three or more versions of the same song.
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Email-retentives probably got that way because something happened to them at the stage in their development when they were learning to use email.
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Email-retentives probably got that way because something happened to them at the stage in their development when they were learning to use email.
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Then there are galleys for one more check publishing: heaven for anal retentives.
In Gordath Wood: Writer Patrice Sarath » Copy edits — done 2008
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Back in the days of Web 1.0, Euro head shrink Sigmund Freud coined a term for these people: email-retentives.
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Then the anal-retentives, the self-righteous holier-than-thou mental midgets whined enough for the boards to be shut down.
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