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  • adjective Being a recidivist; inclined to revert to previous behaviours.

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Examples

  • Truth is, what Holder really supports is more law-abiding citizens being victimized by recidivistic, violent punks on parole.

    The Nuge, On Obama, Holder 2009

  • You think they're going to vote for a Republican like McCain, who allies himself with the criminal, recidivistic regime of George Bush and Dick Cheney, the most multipliable impeachable presidency in American history?

    Your Right Hand Thief 2008

  • You think they're going to vote for a Republican like McCain, who allies himself with the criminal, recidivistic regime of George Bush and Dick Cheney, the most multipliable impeachable presidency in American history?

    Archive 2008-02-01 2008

  • "Megamind" -- featuring the voice of Ferrell as the blue-headed recidivistic villain -- grossed $30-million to win the top spot at the domestic box office for the second straight week, according to boxofficemojo. com.

    BOX OFFICE: Reigning champ 'Megamind' (and 'SNL' parody) derails 'Unstoppable' Michael Cavna 2010

  • The critique is far more convincing than Ms. Keith's own recidivistic self-justifications.

    The Vegetarian Myth | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2009

  • No, he thought, with a new idea repudiating the old, the only peculiarity was that as a casualty on the battle ground of family he should live so well and so long without having to continually purge himself of memory that could continually discomfit the present with its stench, rubbing its foul wounded body in recidivistic and wanton desire.

    An Apostate: Nawin of Thais

  • Once their grievance has been addressed it's another powerful reason why they won't become recidivistic.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Sean Rayment 2011

  • Once their grievance has been addressed it's another powerful reason why they won't become recidivistic.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Sean Rayment 2011

  • How else to explain the suddenly awakened consciences of the conspicuously caucasian Tea Baggers who, rather than easily grasp that the causes they trumpet are actually empirically proven to be detrimental to their own interests, opt instead to bleat banal credos which sound superficially like rousing cries for "smaller government" and "accountability" but what are in truth thinly veiled, virulent, recidivistic expressions of deep-seated racism?

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Steven Weber 2011

  • Researchers from Minnesota also have reported that not one of 224 recidivistic sex offenses would have been prevented by

    WN.com - Articles related to Ethiopia requests more money for refugees from Somalia and Eritrea 2010

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