How To Use Workaholic In A Sentence

  • Calm, mannerly, fond of bowties, Whitworth was a workaholic.
  • A compulsive womaniser, adrenaline junkie and workaholic who would sacrifice anything for his career? The Sun
  • To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal. Individuals like myself are often called "workaholics". I question this term because that implies a pathological condition or an illness. If I do what I desire more than anything else in the world and which makes me happy, such work can never be an aberration. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam 
  • In his twenties, however, he became a bit of a workaholic, working 12 to 15 hour days and doing no exercise.
  • For all her girlishness, she's a steely businesswoman and a self-confessed workaholic.
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  • I think you are looking at two workaholics.
  • We may have the classic symptoms of the workaholic - the compulsion to spend hours away from home, the misplaced feeling of virtue - but none of this is proof we are accomplishing anything.
  • Profiles of McGreevey from throughout his career depict him as a workaholic, driven, charming and schmoozy but eerily hollow in both personal life and political philosophy.
  • Chances are you're a workaholic if you feel compelled to work for the sake of working, and you feel panic, anxiety or a sense of loss when you aren't working.
  • Workaholic Yuwarat shrugs off the need for police cavalcades and security with a certain bravado: ‘I am not afraid of dying.’
  • Alcoholic children have a tendency to be workaholics.
  • Bo is indeed quick-tempered and outspoken. He is a man of action and does not tolerate any sloppiness. His colleagues call him a "workaholic".
  • She and her husband were workaholics - for her, four hours’ sleep a night was always more than adequate.
  • An astute businessman and virtual workaholic, he has his finger in more proverbial puddings than Little Jack Horner.
  • In a nation of multitasking workaholics, insomnia strikes 127 million adults.
  • Working too much takes its toll on people's health and relationships, yet most workaholics are hailed as heroes, or at least model employees.
  • A self-confessed workaholic, Tony Richardson can't remember when he last had a holiday.
  • Critics claim putting the clocks forward would force Japan's notoriously workaholic salarymen to spend more time in the office.
  • A self-confessed workaholic, Tony Richardson can't remember when he last had a holiday.
  • His friends know him as a workaholic with an impeccable sense of fairness and attention to detail.
  • And he again points out rampant agism that discriminates against experienced programmers and in favour of workaholic cheaper developers.
  • The machine is probably most suitable for an edgy workaholic or a deeply reluctant exerciser. Times, Sunday Times
  • A workaholic is a smart “Fool” who is always rewarded handsomely by hard work. Dr T.P.Chia 
  • He also objects to words that have been coined on the basis of a false analysis of their morphemes (meaningful elements), like workaholic, breathalyzer, and reprography. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIII No 3
  • You have actually started to enjoy being a workaholic drudge.
  • An astute businessman and virtual workaholic, he has his finger in more proverbial puddings than Little Jack Horner.
  • But surprisingly little is said about workaholic fathers making themselves scarce at the office. Times, Sunday Times
  • The man must be a workaholic; people like him are potentially very depressing to work-shy folks like me.
  • Schweitzer was no soft-headed do-gooder but a strong-minded, short-tempered, workaholic autocrat, who slept only four hours a night and whom people hesitated to cross.
  • It was an intense relationship: Gates the workaholic code writer and competitor , Allen the dreamy visionary.
  • Beyond displaying the kind of parenting that helped make his daughter the automatonlike workaholic depicted in the profile, Mr. Dyson misses the point. From a New Media Prophetess,A Staid Old Media Product
  • In the past ten years a chasm has opened up between the workaholics and the quaintly named 'work-shy'. Times, Sunday Times
  • This canine workaholic was originally conceived to toil the livelong day in blazing heat or frigid cold in Australia's back of beyond, also known as the outback.
  • Her son Bobby is a snotty workaholic who is conveniently too busy to deal with anything on an emotional level.
  • Workaholics can seem to be inadequate, non-delegating, perfectionistic, friendless control freaks. Times, Sunday Times
  • Chances are you're a workaholic if you feel compelled to work for the sake of working, and you feel panic, anxiety or a sense of loss when you aren't working.
  • While processed dishes are becoming a major staple for the generation of non-traditional, Westernized, free-spending workaholics, the older folk are not so easily swayed.
  • To a borderline workaholic like me, his attitude is a complete tonic.
  • They are incorrigibly racist, uncultured bigots, workaholics, crude and gross.
  • I'm on the computer all the time; it's my work, but because that's seen as productive, it's not called addicting, even though there are such things as workaholics. Information, Culture, Policy, Education: Gaming addiction camp
  • I'm beginning to think they're some sort of breed of genetically enhanced superhuman, or actually manic workaholic robots.
  • Although most people characterise O'Kane as extremely sociable and gregarious, he is also described as ‘a workaholic’.
  • By this time his workaholic lifestyle was well established, though always hidden behind his easy friendliness.
  • For starters, poor timing couldn't stop the three biggest workaholics in Hollywood from pumping out back-to-back releases.
  • To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal. Individuals like myself are often called "workaholics". I question this term because that implies a pathological condition or an illness. If I do what I desire more than anything else in the world and which makes me happy, such work can never be an aberration. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam 
  • Women do not consider careers in IT because they think they are careers for geeks, nerds, workaholics or all of the above.
  • Verified workaholic Rick (Milo Ventimiglia, "Heroes") is right-hand-man -- aka "lapdog" -- to hard-driving Miss Craig (Mimi Rogers) at her high-end tax law firm, enduring brusque criticisms and demands without even private complaint. Variety.com
  • In a profession that's notorious for breeding workaholics, burnout is always a threat.
  • Meanwhile, the nice family living upstairs is starting to worry about the workaholic Dr. Jekyll. 2010 February « paper fruit
  • I was a workaholic, to be honest, and I'd spent 23 years working all over the country and basically living in a caravan.
  • Continuing her work at breakneck speed, the lady can put to shame any high-flying workaholic.
  • Someday, all of us will have to become workaholics, happy or not, just to get by.
  • Either they think my parents force me to study, or pass me off as one of those compulsive workaholics - you know - the aggressive people who really take the philosophy that if you don't work to get ahead you fall behind.
  • She is a black woman in a world of mostly white men; a 60-year-old workaholic who abides neither fools nor frauds.
  • On the verge of a workaholic meltdown, Bella's doctor advises her to go to the Caribbean for a month.
  • To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal. Individuals like myself are often called "workaholics". I question this term because that implies a pathological condition or an illness. If I do what I desire more than anything else in the world and which makes me happy, such work can never be an aberration. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam 
  • But rather than planning to create a future generation of workaholics, Dr Richmond said the new research could be used to study mental illness.
  • As a confessed workaholic, who packs in 14 hour days, seven days a week, a social life comes low in her priorities.
  • Have you ever heard of a workaholic shelf-stacker, car park attendant or cleaner? Times, Sunday Times
  • HPFacebookVoteV2. init (295727, 'Movie Review: The Boys Are Back', 'It\'s been 30 years since Kramer vs. Kramer took movie audiences by surprise with its tale of a workaholic dad forced to reorder his priorities to focus on being a caregiver (back before anyone had heard the term \ "caregiver\"). Marshall Fine: Movie Review: The Boys Are Back
  • To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal. Individuals like myself are often called "workaholics". I question this term because that implies a pathological condition or an illness. If I do what I desire more than anything else in the world and which makes me happy, such work can never be an aberration. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam 
  • With the help of his friends, he turns to a corporate workaholic perfectionist lawyer.
  • He asked for a ‘highly intelligent workaholic with skin like a rhinoceros and the ability to work 24 hours a day while juggling 20 balls in the air.’
  • Until he met Francesca he was a workaholic who enjoyed playing hard.
  • A seemingly humorless workaholic, the bespectacled Uribe could be mistaken for an accountant or professor.
  • A compulsive workaholic and an absentee publisher, he has tried a number of different tactics to revive the papers.
  • A compulsive womaniser, adrenaline junkie and workaholic who would sacrifice anything for his career? The Sun
  • He's a workaholic whose goal is to be the first man to put hackers permanently out of business.
  • Women do not consider careers in IT because they think they are careers for geeks, nerds, workaholics or all of the above.
  • There were those who suggested the pint-sized workaholic former minister would be stuck for something to do after her resignation, but by all accounts she is revelling in her newfound freedom.
  • With the help of his friends, he turns to Rita Harrison, a corporate workaholic perfectionist lawyer.
  • A seemingly humorless workaholic, the bespectacled Uribe could be mistaken for an accountant or professor.
  • But workaholic Woody ploughs on regardless - he has been known to recast and reshoot entire films before.
  • He is a workaholic who puts in 14 to 15 hours a day and has a meticulous eye for detail.
  • The new millennium has brought us new kinds of addictive behaviors, such as those associated with shopping, telecommunications (e.g., "crackberry"), and the Internet, along with new forms of work ( "workaholic"), gambling ( "day-trading"), and sexual addictions. Alex Pattakos: Our Cry For Meaning: Aggression, Addiction, Depression
  • He's a workaholic, and hard work is one of the key things in management.
  • Working too much takes its toll on people's health and relationships, yet most workaholics are hailed as heroes, or at least model employees.
  • Brunel, who was known as a workaholic, oversaw the construction of the tunnel and was even known to get down and supervise digging amongst the navvies.
  • Like all workaholics, I struggle with innate laziness.
  • Has this famed perfectionist workaholic chef found a new obsession?
  • However, many people do this out of habit, or to give off the impression that they are such workaholics that they never have time for a real meal.
  • His ex-wife is romantically linked to the workaholic, control-freak owner of the three casinos.
  • His colleagues describe him as a natural-born workaholic who can keep a sharp mind even after working all night.

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