pathologically
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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Cancer, perhaps, is an ultimate perversion of genetics—a genome that becomes pathologically obsessed with replicating itself.
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The crowd was relentlessly, pathologically friendly, and their enthusiasm was deafening.
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Michelangelo—arguably the greatest artist mankind has ever seen—became so pathologically obsessed with sculpting David that he didn’t bathe, or take care of himself for months.
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The research team analyzed gene expression data from post-mortem prefrontal cortex tissue collected from 207 AA brain donors, including 125 individuals with pathologically confirmed AD and 82 controls.
From Science Daily
Those are statements made by a pathologically grandiose person.
From Salon
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