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- adjective
Recklessly determined to do orachieve something
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Examples
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On the extreme contrary, today's Department of Defense leadership is awash with a tsunami of fundamentalist Christian religious predators, literally 'hellbent' on using the draconian spectre of military command influence not only to unconstitutionally force helpless subordinate service men and women to accept their own biblical worldview, but to turn their subordinates into religious predators themselves.
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Lively Woman is indeed, as Carlyle would put it, "hellbent" on purification of politics by adding herself as an ingredient.
The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays 1909 Ambrose Bierce 1878
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He's "hellbent" for socialism despite what America says it wants.
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The Texas district attorney prosecuting the case, Amos Barton, said he was "hellbent" on ensuring the 25-year-old West Australian camp counsellor was punished with the maximum sentence - life in a Texan jail.
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The Texas district attorney prosecuting the case, Amos Barton, said he was "hellbent" on ensuring the 25-year-old West Australian camp counsellor was punished with the maximum sentence - life in a Texan jail.
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I am not "hellbent" on attacking you and your cred is just fine with me. and it is great to see kids play together. adults too)
Report Card Gives Low Marks to City Council Members « PubliCola 2010
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Even so, the House's Republican majority seems to be hellbent on stripping the EPA of its regulatory powers, alleging that the modernization of these dirty coal plants would trigger a loss of jobs and make energy more expensive.
Javier Sierra: Heart of Stone Javier Sierra 2011
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Even so, the House's Republican majority seems to be hellbent on stripping the EPA of its regulatory powers, alleging that the modernization of these dirty coal plants would trigger a loss of jobs and make energy more expensive.
Javier Sierra: Heart of Stone Javier Sierra 2011
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Earth is such a beautiful, unique, unbelievably complex planet and yet humans are simply hellbent on destroying it and everything on it.
Death by Plastic 2009
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Me thinks that the pharmaceutical companies are throwing us a bone in hopes of sidetracking what the President is hellbent on accomplishing: affordable healthcare for ALL.
Obama praises agreement to cut drug costs for senior citizens 2009
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