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One playing with fire
Answer for the clue "One playing with fire ", 10 letters:
pyromaniac
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Word definitions for pyromaniac in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a person with a mania for setting things on fire
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A pyromaniac doesn't throw away the last three matches.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A person suffering from pyromania
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1855, from pyromania . As a noun from 1861.
Usage examples of pyromaniac.
Not because Mrs Lynn Markham fittedthe profile of a pyromaniac -anoccupation pursued bymore young men than stoutish fifty-year-old grandmothers,as indeed is commercial travelling -butbecauseCastle Card & Board was a subsidiary of CornmarketTrading and Cornmarket Trading was owned by AsilYounis.
Between the greenbelts and the neighborhoods of lushly landscaped properties, the vegetation on undeveloped fields and hills was parched and brown, waiting for the kiss of a match in the trembling hand of one of the pyromaniacs contributing to the annual, devastating wildfire season.
They were sometimes referred to as the Holy Pyromaniacs or Firebugs for Christ.
Of course we have plenty of firebugs and pyromaniacs in a small way, but the big conspiracy has never come to my personal attention before.