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  • adverb While gibbering; with wild, incoherent speech.

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gibbering +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • Like the theologian crazed by his theory of the New Testament in Borges's short story Three Versions of Judas, I was gibberingly convinced that I, and I alone, understood the real meaning of the Toy Stories; John Lasseter had spoken directly to me.

    Toy Story 3 2010

  • In all seriousness, the horror should be laid on thick with the Lovecraftian inspiration, and we presume the sort of tentacled supernatural horrors which send a man gibberingly insane.

    Lovecraftian horror Darkness Within 2 released : Chronicles Network: Science Fiction & Fantasy 2010

  • But au contraire – as we can all see, the only effect of this patently extreme extremist has been to make world leaders grovel gibberingly before him; and the more extreme and terrifying he becomes, the more they grovel and seek to appease.

    The third stage for Iranian totalitarianism? 2009

  • But au contraire – as we can all see, the only effect of this patently extreme extremist has been to make world leaders grovel gibberingly before him; and the more extreme and terrifying he becomes, the more they grovel and seek to appease.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • From the Church who takes the wafer idiocy that seriously, to the official representatives of the PMO who seem to think that it's a good investment of their time to respond to such inanities, all of these people are gibberingly mindless airheads who should be interned somewhere for their own safety, and the safety of the rest of us who should never have to listen to this kind of screeching stupidity ever again.

    Wafers, slow news days and lessons to be learned. CC 2009

  • An elder god whose mere name invokes abject terror in mortals, his multi-tentacled and grotesque presence is supposed to drive humans in a one hundred mile radius gibberingly insane.

    Plush Cthulhu Dolls and Other Horrors 2007

  • The milquetoasty heros all die, go gibberingly insane, or turn into horrible monsters, causing them to kill themselves.

    giant crustacean invades US, commandeers transport « raincoaster 2006

  • On the bright side, I got the final cover art for The Orphan's Tales today and it is lip-gibberingly beautiful.

    Oh No They Didn't yuki_onna 2006

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