control freak

noun

: a person whose behavior indicates a powerful need to control people or circumstances in everyday matters

Examples of control freak in a Sentence

My boss is a real control freak.

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What a perfectionist, what a control freak, what a mean lady. —

Constance Grady, Vox, 4 Nov. 2024 Audiences have come to know and love many Stiller personas: jester, auteur, control freak, buff daddy. —

Sean Malin, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2024 At a time when many of the biggest rock stars were ambivalent or tortured by fame and success, Billy Corgan became something of an arch-villain for being a careerist control freak, lampooned everywhere from Pavement songs to music magazine columns. —

Al Shipley, SPIN, 17 Aug. 2024 The mother, Ellen (Kyra Sedgwick), is a micromanaging, passive-aggressive control freak. —

Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 June 2024 See all Example Sentences for control freak

Word History

First Known Use

1970, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of control freak was in 1970

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“Control freak.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/control%20freak. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.

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