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hooked

adjective as in addicted

adjective as in bent, angled

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Your loved one is exhibiting symptoms of outrage illness — they are hooked on anger, constantly seeking the next dopamine hit of indignation.

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His knife-wielding arm buckled and somehow—it was good luck for Ashton, but bad for Simon!—hooked itself ’round Simon’s neck, with the gleaming knife edge pressed against the young bard’s throat.

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These platforms are showing us what keeps us hooked.

It’s a Sheridan, “Landman” kind of TV world, and a lot of powerful people hope we’ll get hooked on how messily it unfolds.

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Much talk in the Australian media has centred on Root's lack of a Test century in this country and his preparations were curtailed when he hooked Matthew Potts to mid-wicket for one.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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