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melodramatically

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a melodramatic manner; with exaggerated speech or action.

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  • adverb In a melodramatic manner.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adverb as in a melodrama
  • adverb in an overly emotional manner

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Examples

  • I love how the title melodramatically bellows: SNAKE SIGHTED! yet later on the victim is exhorted to: Please remain calm …

    The RiotACT 2009

  • I love how the title melodramatically bellows: SNAKE SIGHTED! yet later on the victim is exhorted to: Please remain calm …

    The RiotACT 2009

  • Unfortunately, though not surprisingly, Sanchez melodramatically played the Hispanic Immigrant, Steerage-Class card as the reason he wasn't a made man instead of considering the fact that he had a bad habit of making a boob out of himself on national television.

    Chez Pazienza: I, Sanchez Chez Pazienza 2010

  • Unfortunately, though not surprisingly, Sanchez melodramatically played the Hispanic Immigrant, Steerage-Class card as the reason he wasn't a made man instead of considering the fact that he had a bad habit of making a boob out of himself on national television.

    Chez Pazienza: I, Sanchez Chez Pazienza 2010

  • Then, too, many Chicagoans (white ones, at least) ran around bemoaning their Daley-less fate, and an ordinary if racially-tinged power struggle came to be known melodramatically as Council Wars.

    Kelly Kleiman: Democracy Is Not a Tragedy Kelly Kleiman 2010

  • Unfortunately, though not surprisingly, Sanchez melodramatically played the Hispanic Immigrant, Steerage-Class card as the reason he wasn't a made man instead of considering the fact that he had a bad habit of making a boob out of himself on national television.

    Chez Pazienza: I, Sanchez Chez Pazienza 2010

  • Or so I was told by Linden this spring, as he melodramatically reenacted the scene with his wife, Jeanee.

    Village Dreamers 2009

  • Unfortunately, though not surprisingly, Sanchez melodramatically played the Hispanic Immigrant, Steerage-Class card as the reason he wasn't a made man instead of considering the fact that he had a bad habit of making a boob out of himself on national television.

    Chez Pazienza: I, Sanchez Chez Pazienza 2010

  • One is delivered melodramatically by Devin Norik as Harold.

    Michael Giltz: Theater: Harvard's Secret Gay Shame in Unnatural Acts Michael Giltz 2011

  • Unfortunately, though not surprisingly, Sanchez melodramatically played the Hispanic Immigrant, Steerage-Class card as the reason he wasn't a made man instead of considering the fact that he had a bad habit of making a boob out of himself on national television.

    Chez Pazienza: I, Sanchez Chez Pazienza 2010

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