How to use obsessive in a sentence

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• I think it's a case of the pot calling the kettle black when she says he is obsessive.From the entry pot calling the kettle black
• I’m surprised by how quickly I have become a home obsessive.2020 May 27, Josephine Tovey, “Our homes have become our whole world – and now I'm obsessed with changing mine”, in The Guardian, archived…. From the entry PornHub
• As a fashion editor, I pay obsessive attention to my appearance.2017 November 16, Jo Ellison, “Help: the gym has turned us into slobs”, in Financial Times, archived from the original on 10 Mar 2025. From the entry sartorial
• The stims have passed through stages, each more obsessive than the last.2010, Mark Osteen, One of Us: A Family's Life with Autism, page 148. From the entry stimmer
• Finally, and most likely, the author was simply an obsessive idiosyncratic paramaniac chirping like a mad canary.2009, Mathew Kinsella, The California Tales: A Novel, →ISBN. From the entry paramaniac
• Mortensen’s weariness is partly that he is famous for obsessive overpreparation.2009 September 13, Charles Mcgrath, “Big Gun Takes on the Apocalypse”, in New York Times. From the entry overpreparation
• Are you an obsessive lover of routine, overconscientious, and think cleanliness is next to godliness?2001 March 15, James Meikle, “Fussing can double risk of heart attack”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News &…. From the entry overconscientious
• But deejay and later dancehall has taken this tendency to what some people consider an obsessive extreme.1998, Kevin Chang, Wayne Chen, Reggae Routes: The Story of Jamaican Music, Temple University Press, →ISBN, page 77. From the entry riddim
• “There’s an obsessive quality in the way she describes him.2024 February 16, Minju Pak, quoting Bret Easton Ellis, “Ode to a Punk Rock ‘Sex God’”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry sex god
• This can produce an obsessive, powerful work.2014 April 22, Anita Mason, “Genre fiction radiates from a literary centre”, in The Guardian. From the entry genre fiction
• Have you had any problems with obsessive Little Mixers?2013 July/August, “Exclusive interview with… Little Mix”, in iN Mag Essex, number 101, page 45. From the entry Little Mixer
• My automatic reaction was to deal with the anxiety he evoked in me by pathologizing him as paranoid and obsessive compulsive.2009, Joseph G. Ponterotto et al., Handbook of Multicultural Counseling, →ISBN, page 142. From the entry pathologize
• Auder’s obsessive videomaking prefigures the relentless narcissism of our current self-publishing mania, but there’s artfulness to his seemingly unmediated recording.2009 March 18, Nathan Lee, “A Life Videotaping Life Has Become a Movie”, in New York Times. From the entry videomaking
• In its wake, I was an obsessive Buffyholic.2009, Justine Larbalestier, “A Buffy Confession”, in Glenn Yeffeth, editor, Seven Seasons of Buffy: Science Fiction and Fantasy Authors…. From the entry Buffyholic
• They concern obsessive behavior and varieties of crises in masculinity brought on by old age, poverty, or madness.2009, Jason Lee, Celebrity, Pedophilia, and Ideology in American Culture, Amherst, N.Y.: Cambria Press, →ISBN, pages 200 (Myths and…. From the entry pedophile-phobia
• And the psychiatrist himself did not feel totally devoid of some symptoms of molysmophobia, the obsessive fear of contagion.1995, Charles R. Howell, Ancestral House, page 488. From the entry molysmophobia
• I have the obsessive desire to run toward freedom.1989, David Pilgrim, Race relations "above the veil": speeches, essays, and other writings. From the entry drapetomania
• For some reason I have never heard satisfactorily explained, the most obsessive of these correspondents seem to prefer green.1985 March 8, Ian Aitken, “Tories who are fluoriding high before the fall”, in Peter Preston, editor, The Guardian, number 58719, London…. From the entry green-ink brigade
• Y'all obsessive discoursing has you paranoid.2024 May 7, @leavem3al0ne90, Twitter, archived from the original on 07 Jun 2024. From the entry mod
• The prime minister is a determined centralist in thrall to a tactless and obsessive aide, Cummings, whose skill seems limited to writing slogans in triplicate.2020 July 20, Simon Jenkins, “Britain deserves better than an Old Etonian Donald Trump”, in The Guardian. From the entry triplicate
• Its resident muckraker, Wayne Barrett, took aim at New York developers and politicians for nearly 40 years, and his obsessive work on Donald J.2018 August 31, Tyler Pager, Jaclyn Peiser, “The Village Voice, a New York Icon, Closes”, in The New York Times, archived from the…. From the entry muckraker
• That is, they have an almost obsessive need to listen to every episode of a podcast that they decide to commit to.2017 November 12, Doree Shafrir, “Meet the People Who Listen to Podcasts at Super-Fast Speeds”, in BuzzFeed News. From the entry completist
• Everyone knows the English have an obsessive habit for collecting things, but there are few more obsessive pastimes than the sport of peak bagging.2009, Oliver Berry, The Lake District, →ISBN, page 104. From the entry peak bagging
• An obsessive overdresser, I was often observed even on summer days wearing a flannel shirt, woolen coat, suit, and atrocious-looking shoes made in Russia.2004, David Ohle, The Age of Sinatra, page 106. From the entry overdresser
• The obsessive subject of our sterile confrontation between the two PCs ― the politically and the patriotically correct ― is clumsily labeled "multiculturalism".1993, Robert Hughes, Culture of Complaint. From the entry patriotically
• These compulsive men – and a handful of equally obsessive ‘femcels’ – have been likened to terrorists, and their forum posts have been unpicked ad nauseam.2020 February 19, Jake Hall, “Investigating the insidious rise of the gay incel”, in Dazed. From the entry unpick
• We can already tell which idyllic couples obsessive fans will fantasize about like Chair (Chuck and Blaire of "Gossip Girl") and Jim and Pam of "The Office."2012 October 18, Haley Boston, “TV Review: 'Nashville'”, in The Daily Northwestern, Northwestern University, page 4. From the entry chair
• You don't have to be one of the almost obsessive “Fanilows” to be totally won over by Barry Manilow's latest Vegas show at Paris Las Vegas.2011, Rick Garman, Las Vegas for Dummies, Wiley Publishing, →ISBN, page 248. From the entry Fanilow
• But he could be equally exasperating, obsessive, unempathetic and prone to sudden fits of violence that, invariably, filled him with remorse and self-loathing after the fact.2009 September 24, Sarah Lyall, “Recalling a Home That Really Is a Castle”, in New York Times. From the entry unempathetic
• Not that I have anything against them, I am terribly fond of the members of the tribe, it is just that basically, they are a bunch of obsessive freaks.2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 26. From the entry tribe
• One solitary obsessive, feebly armed with an apostrophe on a stick, will never have the nerve to demonstrate outside Warner Brothers on the issue of Two Weeks Notice.2003 November 6, Lynne Truss, “Introduction – The Seventh Sense”, in Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation…. From the entry nerdishness
• When I say that the great anagrammers seem to be men, and the most obsessive ones at that, Jan points out that some women are great anagrammers, too.2002, Stefan Fatsis, Word Freak. From the entry anagrammer
• But when he tries to get obsessive CIA agent Brandt (Elias Koteas) in charge of the case to do something justicelike about it, Gordy’s brushed off.2002 February 7, Bob Strauss, “It might evoke Sept. 11 images, but ‘Damage’ isn’t anything special”, in Longview News-Journal, Longview…. From the entry justicelike
• Although she argues against a simplistic conflation of types of prejudice, she suggests that misogyny is typically present in both narcissistic and obsessive forms of anti-Semitic prejudice.1999, Joanne Marie Greer, David O. Moberg, Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion, →ISBN, page 29. From the entry misogyny
• Soon Numan had picked up a fiercely loyal fan militia called the Numanoids, who followed him with the obsessive tenacity that only sustained ridicule can foster.1998 September, SPIN, volume 14, number 9. From the entry Numanoid

Meaning of obsessive

1. adjective Prone to cause obsession.
2. adjective Having one thought or pursuing one activity (an obsession) to the absolute or nearly absolute exclusion of all others.
3. adjective Excessive, as results from obsession.

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Questions about obsessive in a sentence

How do you use obsessive in a sentence?

Obsessive is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “The idea is too tempting, it's obsessive.”

What is a short sentence with obsessive?

“Y'all obsessive discoursing has you paranoid.”

What does obsessive mean?

Obsessive means prone to cause obsession.