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addiction
noun as in a habit of activity, often injurious
Strong matches
bag, bent, craving, dependence, enslavement, fixation, hang-up, hook, inclination, jones, kick, monkey on one's back, obsession, shot, thing
Weak match
Example Sentences
Don’t worry, though—with basic research skills and a solid strategy in mind, you’ll be able to sift through the noise and turn your new addiction into a more healthy habit.
Still, Morris has gotten some attention by pitching himself as “the great American comeback story” — beating an opioid addiction to turn his life around.
If you have an addiction problem, you shouldn’t put someone in a situation where they might be tempted.
They’re areas that light up in response to images of food when a person is hungry, or to drug-related images in people with addiction.
Experts say addiction has led men to spend money on khat that could have been used for their children’s education or to upgrade the quality of their family’s life.
What made you want to write a memoir now about your “addiction” to film?
I was talking to one of my friends, who had just recently gotten over a drug addiction, who she tried to talk to about this case.
Methamphetamine addiction is central to more than one story.
I had graduated NYU just a few years earlier and begun a career in publishing, but the addiction got the best of me.
The lure and addiction of gaming—which went back to pinball, of course—became a sensation with Asteroids.
It is most frequent among those whose addiction to alcohol for years has caused repeated paroxysms of delirium tremens.
But non-drug addiction is a major crime against the state of Omega.
Bagsby was a punchy man, with a bald head, and a nose which betokened his habitual addiction to the fiery grape of Portugal.
Addiction to the practice of occult arts had evidently become general in the now semi-orientalized city.
The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development of the man's moral nature.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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