Naturally eager in every thing I undertook, fond of application, and addicted to reflect over the various bearings of any object that once engrossed my attention, I made great advance in my new pursuit.
It is true, that he was not addicted to the romantic fables of astrology, but he was an earnest, though secret, advocate of the world of spirits.
For it seems that the mind is ever addicted to contraries, and that when it be transplanted into a soil where all its neighbours do produce a certain fruit, it doth, from a strange perversity, bring forth one of a different sort.
And so much were those Western people addicted to that name, as they readily followed Sir Edw.
They were greatly addicted to practising these branches of literature.
The odds are, that the old aunt is addicted to snuff, tracts, and the distribution of flannel, and before August, the fair Dorothea will be yearning for a sight of her adorer.
They were addicted neither to gluttony nor drunkenness, and could readily go for two days without food, eating in any case but twice a day.
The Scotch are almost as much addicted as the Americans to this form of barter, so are the Irish.
In this stage of his development he is addicted to falling into love, or rather into flirtation.
The conspirators commenced their operations by enlisting among their number a locksmith, named Guzman, a very poor fellow, but much addicted to low wit.
As a general rule, in the more vigorous and the more addicted to athletic exercise or out-door life, this change is slower in making its approach.
Read that chapter again, and know that the same signs that betray the boy will make known the girl addicted to the vice.
Everywhere girls are carrying off most of the prizes in competitive examinations, because women, as a sex, naturally maintain a better character, take better care of their bodies, and are less addictedto bad and injurious habits.
Countless numbers of boys are addicted to these vices for years.
According to the judicial statistics of all civilised peoples, women are less addicted to crime than men, and boys are more addicted to crime than girls.
These contrasts show that, while the French are less addicted to this grave offence than the Irish, they are more anxious to secure its detection, and that a greater body of public opinion is on the side of law in France than in Ireland.
They are addicted equally with men to the perpetration of parricide, and are more frequently convicted than men for the ill-treatment of children.
On what possible ground, then, is it, except the ground of climate, that the Victorians are more addicted to homicide than the people of the United Kingdom?
As a matter of fact easy circumstances have less influence on conduct than is generally believed; prosperity generates criminal inclinations as well as adversity, and on the whole the rich are just as much addicted to crime as the poor.
With the exception of Italy it is the poorest countries of Europe that are the least dishonest, and, according to our table, even the Italians are not so much addicted to offences against property as the inhabitants of England.
In other words, official statistics show that the people of England are between four and five times more addicted to crime than the people of India.
It would be easy to mention cases by the hundred, in which men addicted to begging have been thoroughly fitted out and started in life, but all to no purpose.
To the latter part of this argument it is easy to reply that Scotland is quite as mountainous as Italy, and yet its inhabitants are far less addicted to crimes against the person.
The cellular system puts an effective stop to any thing like active hostility to religion; but it is a mistake to argue from this that the criminal is addicted to the exercise of religious sentiments.
While the sporting fraternity is notoriously addicted to the hoodoo superstition, yet it is by no means confined to them alone.
Let one who is not much addicted to the habit have a bad dream, a frightful dream, and be he never so well poised, the phantasm can hardly fail of leaving a disquieting, perhaps a lasting, effect.
This would be more and more applicable to a given people, in proportion as it might be more addicted to peaceful pursuits.
Schindler attacks Wawruch on the ground that he had said that Beethoven was addicted to the use of spirituous liquors.
Lord Carbery, during the season, might be immoderately addicted to this mode of sporting, having naturally a pleasurable feeling connected with his own reputation as a skilful and fearless horseman.
In Tuscany, democratic institutions had taken deeper root, among a population addicted rather to arts than to arms, and preferring wealth earned by industry and commercial enterprise to the precarious glory and profits of the sword.
The family of Este, ever addicted to habits of almost effeminate indulgence, had been long represented by Duke Borso, whose reign, as described in the Ferrarese Diary, was one continued revel at home and pageant abroad.
Unfortunately, the average American is entirely addicted to salt and thinks food tastes lousy without it.
At that time I was addictedto salty, deep-fat fried corn chips and a diet pop.
If chemists could learn to cheaply synthesize endorphins I'm sure that millions of people would want to become addicted to them.
At twenty she had beenaddicted to baby talk when endeavoring to coax something out of someone.
He was a dapper, well-dressed fat man, with a weakness for pronounced patterns in suitings, and addicted to derbies.
These last are more filthy, and more addicted to stealing than any of the others.
Fifty-one of Smith's old acquaintances in Palmyra, declare him destitute of that moral character which ought to entitle him to the confidence of any community, spending much of his time in money digging, and being addicted to vicious habits.
I never heard that the French, Germans, Spaniards, or Italians, were addicted to this unbenevolent wit, if cowardly imposition can merit that name.
The English and Americans are equally addicted to bantering, hoaxing, quizzing, humming, or by whatever ridiculous name we may denote this more than ridiculous folly.
The Henkels, however, declared that they could have no fellowship with people who were addictedto false doctrines concerning Baptism and the Lord's Supper, and rejected the doctrine of the Augsburg Confession.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "addicted" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: dependent; given; habitual; hooked; inveterate; rueful
