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  • adverb In an allergic manner; because of allergies.

Etymologies

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allergic +‎ -ally

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Examples

  • They react allergically to what they see as mannerisms in his playing, the love of extremes.

    The big bad boy of the concert hall Anne Midgette 2011

  • In 2008, six years after my first pediatrician insisted that Eden wasn't vomiting incessantly and allergically to his milk-based formula, the American Academy of Pediatrics published a report defining Eden as an infant at risk based on our family history of allergies.

    Susan Weissman: Child Food Allergies: What Causes Them? Susan Weissman 2010

  • I love humus and I wish I could try your recipe but I have to be VERY careful as I often react allergically to chickpeas...

    Hummus Dilettante Mercedes 2007

  • Exposure to formaldehyde can cause eye, nose, and throat irritation, coughing, respiratory distress, headaches, and dizziness, and some people will become allergically sensitized to it.

    HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005

  • Exposure to formaldehyde can cause eye, nose, and throat irritation, coughing, respiratory distress, headaches, and dizziness, and some people will become allergically sensitized to it.

    HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005

  • Exposure to formaldehyde can cause eye, nose, and throat irritation, coughing, respiratory distress, headaches, and dizziness, and some people will become allergically sensitized to it.

    HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005

  • Exposure to formaldehyde can cause eye, nose, and throat irritation, coughing, respiratory distress, headaches, and dizziness, and some people will become allergically sensitized to it.

    HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005

  • But on the other hand, either they would be familiar in the toxins they produced -- and human bodies could resist them -- or else they would be new compounds to which humans would react allergically.

    Operation: Outer Space Murray Leinster 1935

  • If in fact I do have gout and not just allergically reacting, then I have to really think this diet through.

    American Idol 8 - Rickey.org 2009

  • But perhaps because Gamble never mentioned the governor’s name, the crowd did not react as allergically as it did when Reed took his turn at the podium.

    Frank DiGiacomo: VF Daily DiGiacomo, Frank 2008

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