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riveting

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1. riveting - Noun

2. riveting - Adjective

3. riveting - Verb

5. riveting - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

of Rivet

The act of joining with rivets; the act of spreading out and clinching the end, as of a rivet, by beating or pressing.

The whole set of rivets, collectively.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Never content just to be, America is also obliged to mean; America signifies, hence its constant and riveting vulnerability to illusion. Martin Amis

...handsome people are always interesting to watch. But a handsome person in crisis is riveting. Augusten Burroughs

Yes, it was riveting. Despite everything, you knew there was goodness there. Something to believe in. Something which is good, pure and untainted by anything. Pete Doherty

I resent almost all of the time I spend in front of the television, but I find 'The Only Way Is Essex' absolutely riveting. Paul McGann

Let them [Socialists] abandon the utter fallacy, the grotesque, erroneous, fatal blunder of believing that by limiting the enterprise of man, by riveting the shackles of a false equality... they will increase the well-being of the world. Winston Churchill

The relationship of black Americans to Obama is sociologically riveting. Andrew Sullivan

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