Sentence examples for basically compulsive from inspiring English sources

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The most accepted definition of addiction used by the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the DSM is basically compulsive drug use or other behavior that continues despite negative consequence.

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Sexual addiction is basically a compulsive search for multiple sexual partners or an equally compulsive need to masturbate, seek out pornography or engage in something like phone sex.

Nevertheless, when someone whose judgment I respect a lot said he had left after the first act in a state of high irritation, I found myself asking, "Was it the compulsive cuteness?" Basically, it was.

And if you are, would you be interested in discussing it?" I thought to myself, he's basically playing out the character in his 1987 movie about a compulsive womanizer who combs the Upper West Side for dates.

Like its ancestors, Drop7 is basically a miniature obsessive-­compulsive-disorder playground.

Compulsive hoarding.

Compulsive thinking.

Was this compulsive behavior?

Take compulsive lying.

It was compulsive.

It's compulsive".

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