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Sentence count:119+10Posted:2017-01-23Updated:2020-07-24
Antonym: freedomlibertySimilar words: compulsivelyexpulsionimpulsivecompulsoryavulsionconvulsionsimpulsecompunctionMeaning: [kəm'pʌlʃn]  n. 1. an urge to do or say something that might be better left undone or unsaid 2. an irrational motive for performing trivial or repetitive actions against your will 3. using force to cause something. 
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31 So trying to break the habit actually increases the compulsion to smoke or to eat too much!
32 Do we now feel a compulsion to believe things again?
33 Parents and children are acutely vulnerable under circumstances of compulsion and emergency which are regular occurrences in residential admissions.
34 I feel a compulsion to accept Belinda as my own now.
35 His compulsion to be of service and to act from his feelings had found its outlet.
36 The way it takes me, my mania, is a compulsion to spend money.
37 On active participation by the population in arts and sport: I' m in favour of experimentation but not compulsion.
38 There is no compulsion on the farmer to provide education at all.
39 Compulsion is not the answer to get kids to perform better in school.
40 So long as the possibility remained that nothing would happen they felt no compulsion to educate themselves.
41 Detective Jake Gittes, tricked by Cross into smearing Mulwray, does not escape the compulsion to repeat.
42 The use of compulsion in psychiatric care is not just a procedural, professional matter.
43 If you have a negative character, you are likely to fall victim to laziness, irresponsibility, low self- esteem, irresolution. Quitting- mindedness, recklessness, compulsion and emotional impulsiveness. Dr T.P.Chia 
44 He says the compulsion of scientists to find the absolute truth can lead to a kind of intellectual tyranny.
45 I had felt the lure of the unexplored, the compulsion to go where others had not been.
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46 Rather, like the gallae or modern transsexuals, they follow an inner drive or compulsion.
47 Terry had the desire to see how they had been affected, or for any visible signs of compulsion.
48 The bad was the pervasive and inevitable corruption of morals and manners that accompanied such a compulsion for the luxurious.
49 Now, suddenly, I was gripped by a compulsion to learn everything I could about each one of them.
50 The patient had a compulsion that caused him to wash his hands 20 or 30 times a day.
51 Introduction I. Enforcing Law Law may be enforced by compulsion and coercion, or by conciliation and compromise.
52 The aura of compulsion in the public child care services has been extensively analysed in recent years.
53 Burnout often results from a neurotic compulsion to give it all away.
54 A compulsion to ride in glass elevators in Marriott hotels.
55 An alternative view, however, suggests that enlightened self-interest is more likely than regulatory compulsion to bring about truly sustainable activities.
56 There is, of course, no doubt that a payment made in response to an unlawful demand under duress or compulsion may be recovered.
57 It was a compulsion I'd starved for, and even if I never went hungry again I would feel that compulsion for ever.
58 He was a voracious reader with a compulsion to finish everything he started.
59 When he was around I felt no compulsion to bind myself to people in this terrible, demanding way.
60 Catholicism, however gripped the masses by virtue of its incense, its ritual, all quite arbitrary, compulsion without purpose.
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