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She is a compulsive gambler.compulsive = done too much because of an uncontrollable desire
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She has a compulsive eating disorder.
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Liesel even thought that perhaps she could get away with only telling Papa, but she didn't want him thinking that he had a compulsive criminal on his hands. (source)compulsive = done because of an uncontrollable desire
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"John was very self-critical, always analyzing himself," Brady recalls. And he'd always been kind of compulsive. He used to carry around a stack of clipboards and notepads. He'd take copious notes, creating a complete record of everything he did during the course of each day. I remember running into him once in downtown Fairbanks. As I walked up, he got out a clipboard, logged in the time he saw me and recorded what our conversation was about, which wasn't much at all. (source)compulsive = having an uncontrollable desire to do too much of something
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We had about a gazillion cockroaches, big, strong things with shiny wings. We had just a few at first, but since Mom was not exactly a compulsive cleaner, they multiplied. (source)compulsive = done too much because of an uncontrollable desire
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"When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?" In the days that followed, I wrote that passage everywhere—unconsciously, compulsively. (source)compulsively = done excessively due to an uncontrollable desire
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I guess she was a compulsive liar even back then. (source)compulsive = done too much because of an uncontrollable desire
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This was all a long time ago so I might have some of it wrong; but my memory of it is that my approaching Tommy that afternoon was part of a phase I was going through around that time—something to do with compulsively setting myself challenges—and I'd more or less forgotten all about it when Tommy stopped me a few days later. (source)compulsively = excessively due to an uncontrollable desire
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Although I didn't know John and his family until two years ago when I moved into the neighborhood, from what I've been able to gather I think his father was a compulsive alcoholic. (source)compulsive = involuntary
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Aunt Petunia was compulsively straightening cushions.† (source)compulsively = excessively due to an uncontrollable desire
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He was known to be a compulsive gambler and a pretty consistent loser. (source)compulsive = done too much because of an uncontrollable desire
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At first, looking out for a ship was something I did all the time, compulsively.† (source)compulsively = excessively due to an uncontrollable desire
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Then, like a man shaking himself out of a dream, he understood he was being compulsive and bizarre and had to stop.† (source)compulsive = done too much because of an uncontrollable desire
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As the time I had suggested came and went, I found myself glancing compulsively over my shoulder, breathing a sigh of relief when a figure appeared in the distance.† (source)compulsively = excessively due to an uncontrollable desire
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Well, he was a compulsive, no news there.† (source)compulsive = done too much because of an uncontrollable desire
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But looks are deceiving: privately she aches, compulsively chain-smoking Newport cigarettes and biting her fingernails to the quick.† (source)compulsively = excessively due to an uncontrollable desire
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