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impulsive
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    I am impulsive and weak, this I know, but I feel an urge to attempt the impossible and I lean toward her, our faces drawing closer.  (source)
    impulsive = with a tendency to act without forethought
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    Impulsively I reached down and raked her from shoulder to hip with the brush.  (source)
    Impulsively = without forethought
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    If he pushed forward impulsively, he would fail to see the signs and omens left by God along his path.  (source)
    impulsively = without adequate thought
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    In my youth, I tended to be impulsive—turn someone into a frog first, ask questions later.  (source)
    impulsive = with a tendency to take action without forethought
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    When the emergency room clerk asked Beatrice for her stepbrother's name, address, and phone number, Roy impulsively had stepped forward and blurted his own.  (source)
    impulsively = without forethought
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    Pout was thoughtful, sober, and cautious, Finch, a study in earnest impulsiveness.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    The very same character traits of rebelliousness and impulsivity and risk-taking and indifference to the opinion of others and precocity that made them so compelling to their adolescent peers also make it almost inevitable that they would also be drawn to the ultimate expression of adolescent rebellion, risk-taking, impulsivity, indifference to others, and precocity: the cigarette.†  (source)
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    My father was not the impulsive type,  (source)
    impulsive = prone to action without forethought
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    [Impulsively, he stops to kiss her hands; then tenderly, innocently, her lips.]  (source)
    Impulsively = without forethought
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    That was the second mistake he had made in temper, through impulsiveness and irritability....Moreover, all that morning one unpleasantness followed another.†  (source)
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    The very same character traits of rebelliousness and impulsivity and risk-taking and indifference to the opinion of others and precocity that made them so compelling to their adolescent peers also make it almost inevitable that they would also be drawn to the ultimate expression of adolescent rebellion, risk-taking, impulsivity, indifference to others, and precocity: the cigarette.†  (source)
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    A friend would remember her as "different"—passionate and impulsive.†  (source)
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    It seemed Mr. Lewis impulsively spoke out in anger and frustration.†  (source)
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