earsplittingly love

Definitions

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  • adverb In an earsplitting way; very loudly.

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earsplitting +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • She could be quite grouchy, and was very vocal -- at times, earsplittingly so, especially when having her regular arguments with the water bowl (when I got her back she had her own separate water bowl; she promptly ignored this and would use Karma's water dish instead, delivering unto it a steady stream of imprecations until she finally decided to actually drink.)

    My God, It's Full Of Tweets! 2008

  • He looks to the left. .the crowd to his left is earsplittingly loud, only to be outdone by the crowd he soon looks to next.

    Bruce Springsteen: From the Stage at the Vote For Change Rally in Philadelphia 2008

  • -- For the past six years, the taunts of a lone Tampa Bay Rays fan could be heard echoing across cavernous Tropicana Field, so earsplittingly loud that his insults directed at opposing hitters could be heard word-for-word on TV broadcasts from the sparsely attended games.

    The Happy Heckler Can't Be Heard 2008

  • And then she heard the crack of a neat three round burst from an M-16, the crack of it on the cold air over the keening of the wind earsplittingly loud.

    The Arsenal Ahern, Jerry 1988

  • Less than two minutes later, though, the arena was earsplittingly loud again, because Washington tied the game on Semin's fourth goal of this postseason.

    SI.com 2011

  • Less than two minutes later, though, the arena was earsplittingly loud again, because Washington tied the game on Semin's fourth goal of this postseason.

    SI.com 2011

  • But there's nothing worse than finally drifting off only to be thrown from my bed by some earsplittingly loud TV commercial.

    Vail Daily - Top Stories 2010

  • The impact of the film is meant to be garish and earsplittingly obvious, and any of the odd cross cultural fun of the story is lost by a lack of wit.

    DVD Times 2009

  • New York Times article in September 2006 explained, "he was stripped, held in an icy room and jarred by earsplittingly loud music - the genesis of practices later adopted by some within the military, and widely used by the Central Intelligence Agency in handling prominent terrorism suspects at secret overseas prisons."

    Antiwar.com Original 2009

  • We also know that, shortly after his capture, Zubaydah was flown to Thailand, to a secret underground prison provided by the Thai government, where, as a New York Times article in September 2006 explained, "he was stripped, held in an icy room and jarred by earsplittingly loud music -- the genesis of practices later adopted by some within the military, and widely used by the Central Intelligence Agency in handling prominent terrorism suspects at secret overseas prisons."

    Andy Worthington: Who Authorized The Torture of Abu Zubaydah? 2009

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