Definitions

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  • adverb Wildly; in the manner of an undomesticated animal.

Etymologies

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feral +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • Somewhere a former prof is ferally a-grin … EA now officially on The List.

    How To Be Good « Tales from the Reading Room 2009

  • All this is a damning indictment of the ferally inept media, think tanks, and Parliament.

    Spin Doctor Wrote the 'Dodgy' Dossier Says MP 2007

  • Not only does Mr. Dinklage play the best drunk I've seen on stage in years, but Ms. Kazan is ferally, frighteningly sexy as a troublemaking neighbor who barges in on the folie à trois of the three brothers (Mr. Dinklage, Paul Dano and Josh Hamilton), who are living together in the 10th-floor apartment out of whose living-room window their mother and father jumped (not simultaneously!).

    Getting Along Without Broadway 2007

  • When the Kletz brothers called her Raccoon, she indulged them by rubbing her hands together ferally.

    The Worst Years of Your Life Mark Jude Poirier 2007

  • And then your neck muscles twitch ferally back as three million years of savanna evolution start listening for startled predators, but hear the first temblors of subsonic thunder?

    Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2007

  • Just this ferally savage physical need, poisoned with bitterness and deceit.

    The Christmas Bride Jordan, Penny 2006

  • Yuki meets Sasori in a cemetary; lying on the ground after sex-for-cash, a grating sound draws her attention to a nearby headstone, where she sees the fugitive glowering at her from afar, ferally holding in clenched teeth a man's severed arm, to which she is handcuffed, viciously filing the chain against the edge of the grave marker!

    Quoth Meiko Kaji: Nevermore 2006

  • Yuki meets Sasori in a cemetary; lying on the ground after sex-for-cash, a grating sound draws her attention to a nearby headstone, where she sees the fugitive glowering at her from afar, ferally holding in clenched teeth a man's severed arm, to which she is handcuffed, viciously filing the chain against the edge of the grave marker!

    Archive 2006-05-07 2006

  • They both breathed heavily and eyed each other through chaotic locks of ferally tousled hair.

    Harbinger DAVID MACK 2005

  • They both breathed heavily and eyed each other through chaotic locks of ferally tousled hair.

    Harbinger DAVID MACK 2005

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