neurotically
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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Why hadn’t I thought of any of this before, particularly because I’d been so neurotically careful for the previous two years.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 12, 2022
A playwright with surrealistic wit, she quipped as I neurotically rechecked my digital recorder at the start of the interview, “Wouldn’t it be funny if all you got was the sound of the fountain?”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 23, 2020
From a young age, I can remember going over to her house for a sleepover and sometimes spending an hour or more neurotically cleaning her room, while she goofed around and entertained me.
From Slate ● May 6, 2019
It is invigorating and irritating, astute and facile, rigorous and flippant, fair-minded and score-settling, practical and hyperbolic, and maybe a dozen other neurotically contradictory things.
From New York Times ● Apr. 5, 2017
It was like struggling with some crushing physical task, something which one had the right to refuse and which one was nevertheless neurotically anxious to accomplish.
From "1984" by George Orwell
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