Definitions
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- adverb With a
howl or howls. - adverb informal In a comical way that causes howls of
laughter .
Etymologies
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Examples
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It was likely the fact that the piece was so brutally honest that made it howlingly funny.
Andrew Blackmore-Dobbyn: How Cintra Wilson Made Me Care About Fashion Again Andrew Blackmore-Dobbyn 2011
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It was likely the fact that the piece was so brutally honest that made it howlingly funny.
Andrew Blackmore-Dobbyn: How Cintra Wilson Made Me Care About Fashion Again Andrew Blackmore-Dobbyn 2011
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So by not getting everything wrong they made some things worse, because it was mostly not the kind of bad that was howlingly funny.
Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway laurel 2009
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Last week's dog of an episode was marred by Lin-Manuel Miranda's howlingly awful guest shot as a canine trainer.
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You want to make sure the titles don't step on each other, or create howlingly funny inappropriate blank verse in the ToC listing.
MIND MELD: Behind the Scenes...How the Hottest Short Fiction Anthologies Are Created (Part 1) 2009
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I can sympathize with Kimberly Thune, because if there's one notable thing about Game Change, it's the way Mark Halperin and John Heilemann skillfully reduce every female character in the book to some howlingly grotesque sexist caricature.
Kimberly Thune Worries That 2012 Campaign Reporters Will Reduce Her To A Sexist Caricature Jason Linkins 2011
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The result is there is no shortage at all of top PhD scientists, and top business people too, (Perot, Soros, Buffett) going around publicly spouting * howlingly* wrongheaded economics -- and doing it self-righteously, with no idea that they should be embarrassed.
Math and Economics, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Beacon Hills' population — and problems — will be growing big-time when MTV's howlingly sexy supernatural drama comes back this summer, TV Guide Magazine has learned exclusively.
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Maya and Eema have been kidnapped and sold into slavery, though the script is quickly diverted from this development and devoted instead to a succession of gags and jokes viewers under 12 may find howlingly risqué.
Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat 2009
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Only I took it one step further and, at 17, wrote a howlingly bad novel in which I explored his glories.
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