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IRRESISTIBLY
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Incapable of being resisted
Example:
the candy looked overwhelmingly desirable to the dieting man
Synonyms:
irresistibly; overpoweringly; overwhelmingly
Classified under:
Pertainym:
irresistible (impossible to resist; overpowering)
Context examples:
Nor was there any way, out of her inexperience, for her to know that the cosmic feel she caught of him was that most cosmic of things, love, which with equal power drew men and women together across the world, compelled stags to kill each other in the rutting season, and drove even the elements irresistibly to unite.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
For a while the door of the office was open and everyone who came into the garage glanced irresistibly through it.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
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