compulsive personality

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A personality pattern characterized by rigidity, perfectionistic standards, meticulous attention to order and detail, and excessive concern with conformity, duty, and adherence to standards of conscience.

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How to use compulsive personality in a sentence

And, especially when it comes to the middle, personality counts.
Why This Liberal Hearts Huckabee|Sally Kohn|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST
But it looks like it was created by crazed person with obsessive-compulsive behavior.
Red Tape Is Strangling Good Samaritans|Philip K. Howard|December 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
“We won the war,” the Fox News personality proclaimed last week.
Why I’m for the War on Christmas|Asawin Suebsaeng|December 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST
“He was an absolutely gray and insignificant personality,” says Kurnosova.
Russians Plot Exiled Government in Kiev|Anna Nemtsova|December 16, 2014|DAILY BEAST

His detail seeking in our meetings is compulsive and a little nuts.
Alfred Hitchcock’s Fade to Black: The Great Director’s Final Days|David Freeman|December 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST
However, on reaching Spain, the magic of the Emperor's personality soon restored the vigour and prestige of the French arms.
Napoleon's Marshals|R. P. Dunn-Pattison
It represents an engaging personality, in which vivacity and sensibility are distinctly indicated.
Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D.|Clara Erskine Clement
Jean Baptiste possessed great personality, and to be near one was to effect that one with it.
The Homesteader|Oscar Micheaux
The new monarch, with his striking personality and good looks, at once captivated the hearts of his fickle Southern subjects.
Napoleon's Marshals|R. P. Dunn-Pattison
She had expected personality, magnetism, as a compensation for nature's external economies.
Ancestors|Gertrude Atherton