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
“I am so physically small, so temperamentally unobtrusive, and so neurotically inarticulate that people tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests,” she wrote in the preface to “Slouching.”
From Washington Post ● Dec. 23, 2021
In the coronavirus era, people may resort to obsessive cleaning, hoarding toilet paper, stockpiling food or neurotically wearing masks when driving alone in their cars.
From New York Times ● Nov. 28, 2020
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
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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