Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • As one frenzied; distractedly.

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  • adverb In a frenzied manner.

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  • adverb in a frenzied manner

Etymologies

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frenzied +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • And again he toiled frenziedly, but this time with a different purpose.

    Chapter XXVII 2010

  • Instead, a frenziedly spirited troupe of backing dancers is left to pick up the slack, while Britney clambers aboard various moving parts of machinery and is wheeled around like an ancient maiden aunt being taken for her morning perambulation in a bath chair.

    Britney Spears review 2011

  • At times she struggles frenziedly with its hands, as if she could outwit time.

    Howard Kissel: The Met's New "Traviata" Howard Kissel 2011

  • At times she struggles frenziedly with its hands, as if she could outwit time.

    Howard Kissel: The Met's New "Traviata" Howard Kissel 2011

  • It features a table full of what is optimistically described as wine, and a parrot tweaking for a nip of delicious, existence-numbing witch piss, frenziedly squawking "like" every time the price pops up – £2.99!

    The Hard Sell: Aldi 2011

  • When she neared, the creature scurried in the tunnel beneath her feet, making the arrow shaft dart frenziedly in the mucky ground, which amused her.

    Kresley Cole Immortals After Dark: The Clan MacRieve Kresley Cole 2010

  • Above, along the gallery, an audience of Nocs crowed and rasped frenziedly in their bird forms.

    Nevermore Kelly Creagh 2010

  • She then commenced to whacking him frenziedly when at the first blow he did no more than curse and flinch and try more ferociously than ever to spit Neil on the end of his knife.

    Shameless KAREN ROBARDS 2010

  • In it, Canner meets the CEOs and marketing heads of different drug companies, and she meets doctors, scientists and therapists, all of whom are working frenziedly toward producing and flogging the key to the ultimate female sexual experience.

    The race to discover Viagra for women 2010

  • Decades ago, in that faraway postwar world before live sports commentaries were routine, a small boy in Yorkshire would search frenziedly through the ether for radio stations that might cracklingly reveal news of how England's cricketers were faring on the other side of the world in contests against Australia.

    Muttiah Muralitharan: a real sporting king in a world of unworthy princes 2010

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