obsessive person
Example Sentences
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Jamil admitted that anorexia had made her "an exhausted, boring, navel-gazing obsessive person" in her teens and early 20s.
From BBC ● May 30, 2024
“I’m a very obsessive person, so one poster became every poster,” Mr. Kraft said.
From New York Times ● Aug. 18, 2018
He says his dad’s an obsessive person, and this attention to detail is something he’s taken into Pharmacopeia.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 16, 2017
He’s a very obsessive person, and when obsessive people get attached to something, into something, we tend to take it way too far,” says Brock.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 5, 2015
But note: "anorak" is also a somewhat derogatory term for a nerdy, obsessive person.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 6, 2012
