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- adverb In a
cannibalistic manner; in a way that involvescannibalism
Etymologies
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Examples
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And by choosing to ham it up in his double reprisal of Hannibal the Cannibal, Hopkins managed to cannibalistically rid his signature role of any fear or Oscar-winning momentum.
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They're vicious even before birth; they cannibalistically devour their weaker siblings in utero.
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Queequeg was George Washington cannibalistically developed.
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Metamorphizer in the hope either of its cannibalistically feeding upon itself or becoming so infected with giantism as to blow up and burst -- the failure of the experiment on the Russian steppes was ignored or forgotten by these contributors; building barriers of dryice; and the use of infrared lamps.
Greener Than You Think Ward Moore 1940
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Queequeg was George Washington cannibalistically developed.
Moby Dick: or, the White Whale Herman Melville 1855
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Queequeg was George Washington cannibalistically developed.
Moby Dick, or, the whale Herman Melville 1855
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Queequeg was George Washington cannibalistically developed.
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For one, Google's dominance of search means that each mobile search is -- cannibalistically-speaking -- one less desktop search.
MacDailyNews 2010
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Without a steel cage built of state regulation and trade unionism, markets will cannibalistically feed upon their own flesh.
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At the same time that they are cannibalistically gorging themselves on each other, major financial institutions seem to be in a desperate contest to see who can waste the most money.
BloggingStocks 2008
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