hypochondriac
Example Sentences
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Women—myself included—too often worry about coming off as hypochondriacs about pain or symptoms, so we just bear it without pressing for answers when our gut tells us the doctors are wrong.
She’s this little hypochondriac, I mean, but it makes sense.
From Salon
Doctors “called me a hypochondriac and said it was just anxiety and depression,” said Hannah Powell, a 26-year-old Utah woman who went undiagnosed for five years.
From Seattle Times
Maybe I was one of those hypochondriacs, obsessing over Fig’s health.
From Literature
Danny is agoraphobic, socially anxious, obsessive, something of a hypochondriac and nominally a journalist, that most nominal of television professions.
From Los Angeles Times
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