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  • adverb In a loopy way.

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Examples

  • Worst of all, Hull is to fill up with giant, brightly coloured fibreglass toads, a stunt so loopily against the spirit of the two poems that are their inspiration – "Toads" and "Toads Revisited", in which the squatting toad, impossible to shake off, is both a symbol of work and of the narrator's timid and confining personality – I find myself wondering whether their creators have actually read either one.

    In search of the real Philip Larkin 2010

  • That's right: The minds behind "The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)," "The Complete History of America (Abridged)" and other loopily condensed works have now concocted "Completely Hollywood (Abridged)," a movie-theme spoof that, one evening this week, sent a Kennedy Center audience into regular peals of near-hysterical laughter.

    Celia Wren reviews 'Completely Hollywood (Abridged)' at Kennedy Center 2010

  • A big giveaway should have been the loopily fancy incentive to Mr. Zell himself (a 15-year option to buy 40% of the firm for $500 million) for presiding over an LBO so risky to the company and so friendly to Chandler.

    Zell's Hell 2010

  • He used to just loopily and gently rock out those songs, with the Black Amazons wailing away behind him, and it was just awesome.

    Archive 2008-06-01 Becca 2008

  • He used to just loopily and gently rock out those songs, with the Black Amazons wailing away behind him, and it was just awesome.

    Jerry, Etc. Becca 2008

  • But the recruitment video contains some stuff that (1) I don't consider 'private' and (2) is loopily counterfactual on face (Scientologists aren't the only people who care about suffering, obviously).

    Pretty Much Turtles All the Way Down Rogers 2008

  • A familiarity with “Naughty Germans” is something one could easily associate with the erstwhile Trimspa Goddess, the Methadone Muse, as of course is loopily intoxicated showtime behaviour.

    the ghost of Anna Nicole Smith takes over the body of Sharon Stone « raincoaster 2007

  • A familiarity with “Naughty Germans” is something one could easily associate with the erstwhile Trimspa Goddess, the Methadone Muse, as of course is loopily intoxicated showtime behaviour.

    2007 February 15 « raincoaster 2007

  • Germans is something one could easily associate with the erstwhile Trimspa Goddess, the Methadone Muse, as of course is loopily intoxicated showtime ...

    Anna Nicole’s Fridge contents! « raincoaster 2007

  • That's the kind of succinct, loopily brilliant imagery that peppers every Tom Waits song.

    Tom Waits Shows Head and Heart in Beautiful New York Show 1999

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