Definitions
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- adverb In a
maniacal manner;frantically .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a maniacal manner or to a maniacal degree
Etymologies
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Examples
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Eib, you saying that with your Harley avatar giggling maniacally is not helping my erection go away.
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Now I want to laugh maniacally, that is so stupid of you, oldie.
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The next day Senator Mitchell announced that he could not, in good conscience, vote to approve someone so "maniacally" opposed to a woman's right to choose, as enshrined in Roe v. Wade.
'Supreme Courtship' 2008
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Gates 'biggest ideas these days are focused on the work being done by The Gates Foundation, which he has "maniacally" thrown himself into since removing himself from his full-time commitment to Microsoft this summer.
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Gates 'biggest ideas these days are focused on the work being done by The Gates Foundation, which he has "maniacally" thrown himself into since removing himself from his full-time commitment to Microsoft this summer.
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Rarely have I seen a movie as maniacally fine-tuned to drive the voters of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences into orgasms of approbation and applause.
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close gleams with Oscar worthiness 2012
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Dachshunds: The long-haired was feisty and seemed to be running around maniacally.
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I couldn't help picturing the comedy run he had done to entertain my friends and me when I was young: an action where he pulled his knees up high, and frantically pumped his arms while grinning maniacally.
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You went on radio and maniacally slurred our highly valued colleague, Chuck Lorre, producer of "Men" and two other shows that arguably are even more important right now to our future.
It's Just Business, Charlie Jr. Holman W. Jenkins 2011
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His celebration, pounding his chest maniacally while seemingly carried away in a trance, was reminiscent of Diego Maradona's berserk reverie when he scored for Argentina against Greece in the 1994 World Cup, arguably the greatest false-dawn comeback of them all.
Thierry Henry's second coming gets to the heart of the matter | Rob Bagchi 2012
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