Adjective : an obsessive fear of illness. From Dictionary.com.
I listen to music obsessively, which is why I really need to update my library. From Wordnik.com. [SpoutBlog] Reference
I’m sure I’m not alone in having favorite books that I’ve read and re-read obsessively from a young age. From Wordnik.com. [Book Giveaways « Tales from the Reading Room] Reference
Ms. Phillips "obsessively" defends Israel's actions. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
What is rare is a courageous statesman like Joe Lieberman who "obsessively" puts country before party. From Wordnik.com. [Bull Moose] Reference
Eisner now diets and exercises "obsessively," as one insider puts it, and insists he's never been more fit. From Wordnik.com. [How Eisner Saved Disney--And Himself] Reference
Bank high flyer, in the other a woman accused of "obsessively" stalking him for five years. From Wordnik.com. [NEWS.com.au | Top Stories] Reference
Geert Wilders and those like him, refer "obsessively," so Ian Buruma tells us, to "the cultural elite.". From Wordnik.com. [Winds Of Jihad By SheikYerMami] Reference
Kimberley Morrison, 43, is accused of "obsessively" following the senior banker, who cannot be identified on court orders, since May 2004. From Wordnik.com. [AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories] Reference
I was mingling with my obsessively athletic peers. From Wordnik.com. [Discrimination At Large] Reference
Daley governs even more obsessively than his father. From Wordnik.com. ['Hizzoner' And His Son] Reference
The creative geniuses of art and science work obsessively. From Wordnik.com. [The Puzzle Of Genius] Reference
For years we Americans focused obsessively on the "war on terror.". From Wordnik.com. [A Nation Of ‘Flatlanders’] Reference
Some find themselves obsessively glued to cable news deep into the night. From Wordnik.com. ['It Sucks Being On The Sidelines'] Reference
I remember sitting up for two days straight and reading everything obsessively. From Wordnik.com. ['I Was Transformed'] Reference
Nevertheless there are, of course, gaps, and creationists love them obsessively. From Wordnik.com. [The Angry Evolutionist] Reference
"Dead people belong to the live people who claim them most obsessively," he says. From Wordnik.com. [Tracking Mommy] Reference
He had no conception of how obsessively we would make ourselves remember Pearl Harbor. From Wordnik.com. [Maybe We Should Forget It] Reference
Like his boss, Libby has been almost obsessively focused on the dangers of germ warfare. From Wordnik.com. [Cheney's Cheney] Reference
"I remember sitting up for two days straight and reading everything obsessively," she says. From Wordnik.com. [Star Power] Reference
Finding a partner in crime was really unbelievable and we started collecting obsessively together. From Wordnik.com. [‘Where Jewish Vinyl Goes To Die’] Reference
They edit and publish each other, review each other's books and gossip obsessively about each other. From Wordnik.com. [When Harry Met Willie] Reference
One defector told Hagiwara that he recalled Kim obsessively repeating, "We will be killed by the people.". From Wordnik.com. [SURVIVAL MODE?] Reference
I was always fascinated by the inversion of those two albums and started collecting quietly, obsessively. From Wordnik.com. [‘Where Jewish Vinyl Goes To Die’] Reference
Proud, I prickly and obsessively persistent, he is regarded by his co-workers as something of an odd duck. From Wordnik.com. [One Fed's War On The Fbi] Reference
My father died in '96, and in his last years of life he returned to those three or four years obsessively. From Wordnik.com. [Luminous Novel From Dark Master] Reference
Starting with Watergate, journalism became increasingly -- I would even say obsessively -- fascinated with itself. From Wordnik.com. [Living Politics: How We've Changed] Reference
Arroyo has obsessively pursued her father's legacy, even reading his memoirs religiously for inspiration and guidance. From Wordnik.com. [PEOPLE POWER II] Reference
What Price does remember — obsessively, uncontrollably and with remarkable accuracy — is stuff that happened to her. From Wordnik.com. [Unable to Forget] Reference
For now, that show, like many others, is focused obsessively on the Diana death scene, hoping for a mini-O.J. in the making. From Wordnik.com. [Genuflect Journalism] Reference
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