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  • adverb In a paralytic manner.

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Examples

  • Almost paralytically shy, I stood mute in the overly warm book-smelling van, waiting for inspiration, or the librarian, to strike me over the head.

    MIND MELD: What Book Introduced You to Science Fiction? 2009

  • At root, fascism feeds on apathy and despair, the sense that a society so fundamentally dysfunctional, so paralytically broken, cannot be set right.

    Bradley Burston: Will Israel Grant Asylum to Fascism? 2009

  • I want him to not touch anything and not say another goddamn thing - just ride his stupid bike, cut brush and get paralytically drunk until we can get him out of there.

    McCain Blasts Obama As Unfit To Defend America 2009

  • Sierra Doe, epicenter of the frenzy, lay paralytically still.

    Life As We Know It Jennifer Foote Sweeney 2008

  • Sierra Doe, epicenter of the frenzy, lay paralytically still.

    Life As We Know It Jennifer Foote Sweeney 2008

  • Sierra Doe, epicenter of the frenzy, lay paralytically still.

    Life As We Know It Jennifer Foote Sweeney 2008

  • Sierra Doe, epicenter of the frenzy, lay paralytically still.

    Life As We Know It Jennifer Foote Sweeney 2008

  • Sierra Doe, epicenter of the frenzy, lay paralytically still.

    Life As We Know It Jennifer Foote Sweeney 2008

  • Sierra Doe, epicenter of the frenzy, lay paralytically still.

    Life As We Know It Jennifer Foote Sweeney 2008

  • Sierra Doe, epicenter of the frenzy, lay paralytically still.

    Life As We Know It Jennifer Foote Sweeney 2008

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