What is "pyromaniac"

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.