He cleaned his shoes compulsively after every walk. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : a compulsive desire to cry. From Dictionary.com.
If one were to be sitting all day, compulsively, that is equally absurd as far as the body's construction is concerned. From Wordnik.com. [Those with a desk job, please stand up] Reference
But, unfortunately I see a lot of people began to eat kind of compulsively and gain weight. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 21, 2009] Reference
Whatever it might be, people compulsively replicate. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 4, 2009] Reference
HEMMER: One critic says it's compulsively watchable. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 9, 2003] Reference
In real life he's very sloppy, and I'm compulsively neat. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 30, 2001] Reference
Early on, he compulsively stuffed batteries in his pockets. From Wordnik.com. [Confronting Alzheimer's] Reference
He doesn ` t shake hands and he washes his hands compulsively. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 25, 2008] Reference
He doesn ` t shake hands, and he washes his hands compulsively. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 13, 2007] Reference
I mean we get to - there ` s lots of ways to compulsively acquire. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 25, 2009] Reference
Surprise forged on along the path, talking compulsively as she did. From Wordnik.com. [Stork Naked]
DAVIES: So, compulsively washing your hands is a good idea year-round?. From Wordnik.com. ['Ah-Choo!' Takes On Mysteries Of The Common Cold] Reference
Her hands were now compulsively mashing muffin bits into the tabletop. From Wordnik.com. [The Killing Hour]
She started exercising compulsively and starving herself in high school. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 22, 2006] Reference
For Megan Cunningham, it's the opposite because she exercises compulsively. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 15, 2006] Reference
For Megan Cunningham, it's the opposite, because she exercises compulsively. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 15, 2006] Reference
So compulsively, like a fated character out of Dostoyevsky or Eugene O'Neill?. From Wordnik.com. [Joyce Carol Oates's 'In the Absence of Mentors/Monsters': Narrative Magazine] Reference
While not, per se, a poet, Larry writes poems compulsively to avoid actual work. From Wordnik.com. [Biography / Memoir (outline)] Reference
WALTER MATTHAU, ACTOR: In real life, he's very sloppy, and I'm compulsively neat. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 24, 2005] Reference
In person, he is voluble, antsy -- and almost compulsively generous and welcoming. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Ride] Reference
He compulsively ate Dentyne gum, in case he got the urge to swoop me into a clinch. From Wordnik.com. [Why I Can't Be a Hare Krishna] Reference
She's compulsively worried about the news that her husband will tell them the next day. From Wordnik.com. [Three Family Secrets We Can't Keep] Reference
BEHAR: Ali, why do you think you compulsively shop like that, what is it about yourself?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 12, 2009] Reference
It is simply who he is and he's someone who's always been a compulsively competitive guy. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Sunday Morning News: Election 2000: Gore and Bush Keep Quiet About Court Proceedings - December 3, 2000] Reference
Had Ted compulsively tidied it while attempting to repel whatever demons were gnawing at him?. From Wordnik.com. [While Other People Sleep]
KING: Do you think all of us have a little bit -- for example, I'm -- I'm compulsively not late. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 18, 2009] Reference
The other is whether she was compulsively motivated in a way that she could not control herself. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 12, 2001] Reference
Welburn, then working on mundane family cars, still compulsively doodled race cars in his spare time. From Wordnik.com. [Trailblazer By Design] Reference
And so there is this weird way that games work on you that can become oddly and compulsively joyless. From Wordnik.com. [Video Games: The 21st Century's Fine Art Frontier] Reference
We have put diverse ecologies at risk as we compulsively drill for what is in effect ancient sunlight. From Wordnik.com. [Elizabeth Cunningham: Honoring the Elements: The Pagan Roots of Religion] Reference
Piro told Kessler Saddam was a neat freak who would wash his hands compulsively if he ever shook yours. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 25, 2008] Reference
He compulsively took giant gulps of air, his need for oxygen outweighing his apprehension of the smell. From Wordnik.com. [The Killing Hour]
Piro told Kessler Saddam was a neat freak, who would wash his hands compulsively if he ever shook yours. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 26, 2008] Reference
TODD: Pero told Kessler he was a neat freak, who would wash his hands compulsively if he ever shook yours. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 13, 2007] Reference
The ham-handed director was Susanna White, who intercuts compulsively, whether or not anything is happening. From Wordnik.com. ['Last Dancer': Ultimately on Point] Reference
They waste our precious time and pressure us to behave compulsively (hence the term "obsessive compulsive"). From Wordnik.com. [Eric Maisel, Ph.D.: The Art of Obsessing Compulsively] Reference
TODD: Piro told Kessler Saddam was a neat freak who would wash his hands compulsively if he ever shook yours. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 17, 2007] Reference
TODD: Poirot told Kessler Saddam was a neat freak who would wash his hands compulsively if he ever shook yours. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 14, 2007] Reference
Her hands were rubbing her arms compulsively, as if she were trying to ward off a chill in hundred-degree heat. From Wordnik.com. [The Killing Hour]
They exercise compulsively, and even when they can count their ribs, their image in the mirror tells them to lose more. From Wordnik.com. [Fighting Anorexia: No One To Blame] Reference
For me, I ` m not allowed to jerk off compulsively -- masturbate, I ` m new to all that stuff -- masturbate compulsively. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 4, 2009] Reference
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