Synonyms for COMPELLED
com·pelled

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1. List of paraphrases for "compelled":

   forced, obliged, bound, obligated, coerced, required, constrained

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1. Vaclav Havel:

   Human beings are compelled to live within a lie, but they can be compelled to do so only because they are in fact capable of living in this way. Therefore not only does the system alienate humanity, but at the same time alienated humanity supports this system as its own involuntary masterplan, as a degenerate image of its own degeneration, as a record of people's own failure as individuals.

2. David Lee Roth:

   I am encouraged and compelled to really come to grips with how short time is, and my time is probably even shorter.

3. Anthony Kennedy:

   The union basically is making these teachers 'compelled riders' for issues on which they strongly disagree.

4. Lori Tremmel Freeman:

   I think the more the pandemic is in the rearview mirror for some people -- or they believe it is -- then the less compelled they will be to do this, and so we have a big public health education campaign ahead of us.

5. Bruce Miller:

   I don't want the show to be torture to watch. It is entertainment and you want people to be compelled by it. You don't want it to be horrible medicine.