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compulsive
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Girl Interrupted
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- It has been decided that you were compulsively promiscuous.†
*compulsively = excessively due to an uncontrollable desire
- Take, for example, "compulsive promiscuity."†
compulsive = done too much because of an uncontrollable desire
- How many girls do you think a seventeen-year-old boy would have to screw to earn the label "compulsively promiscuous"?†
compulsively = excessively due to an uncontrollable desire
Definitions:
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(1)
(compulsive) describing something someone does, as done too much because of an uncontrollable desire -- such as excessive gambling or eating
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Much more rarely, compulsive is used like compelling to indicate that something is so captivating that it is hard to turn attention away from it.