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Meanings of obsessively in English

Portuguese
de forma compulsiva

In a compulsive manner.

de forma compulsiva
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Examples for "compulsively"
Examples for "compulsively"
1
His work is deeply perceptive, often outrageously funny and always compulsively readable.
The Guardian
2
I am compulsively early -I get to airports three hours early.
The Guardian
3
I think I may have that disease where you compulsively buy things.
Wired
4
My teeth chattered compulsively as my body began to have involuntary convulsions.
Monster Hunter International
5
He was popping them compulsively every hour or so, enjoying the buzz.
The vaults
1
No toothbrush, and although she's obsessionally tidy, the drawers are open in here-shesnatched socks and underwear, and whatever else she needed, on the fly.
Body work
Usage of obsessively in English
1
Paleolithic people must have read animal signs and talked about animals obsessively.
The Guardian
2
Solve that problem-makepeople feel safe to post-andthey will share obsessively.
Wired
3
Dad obsessively talked business and didn't listen to anything anyone else said.
Mad enough to marry
4
Need a Zen break from obsessively checking the polls every 20 minutes?
Wired
5
But the system that obsessively propped up Jian Ghomeshi needs to change.
The Guardian
6
Their various hypotheses are, generally speaking, beautifully articulated and obsessively thought throughout.
The Irish Times
7
His trips had become almost obsessively frequent in the last four years.
Super
8
Each glass wiped obsessively until it reflects the light in the room.
Body work
9
She spent her time obsessively reading 19th-century novels and keeping a journal.
The Guardian
10
I've been checking my email obsessively, but I've heard nothing from Tom.
The Girl on the Train
11
She began to read 19th-century novels obsessively and to keep a journal.
The Guardian
12
I added the fifth, obsessively-repetitive loop Actinium before a concert in Dusseldorf.
Radio NZ
13
I watched those games obsessively on YouTube as they were going on.
The Guardian
14
Pericoli, a thirty-one-year-old Italian-born architect who works for Richard Meier, draws obsessively.
The new yorker
15
As he wraps it, he obsessively creases the corners with his fingernails.
The Guardian
16
Whoever he was, he was rigid and orderly, meticulous and obsessively neat.
Mindhunter
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Translations for obsessively
Obsessively through the time
Obsessively across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Less common