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- adverb With a
shrieking sound.
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Examples
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A previously unknown letter has surfaced, detailing the "shriekingly funny" Dreadnought hoax of 7 February 1910, when members of the Bloomsbury group of writers and artists donned beards and costumes to disguise themselves as Abyssinian princes and gained access to the pride of the British naval fleet.
How a bearded Virginia Woolf and her band of 'jolly savages' hoaxed the navy 2012
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What becomes shriekingly clear after you publish a book is this: Nobody cares as much as you do.
Holly Robinson: A Writer's First Year: "Do Not Snort on NPR" and Other Tips for Flogging Your Book 2010
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What becomes shriekingly clear after you publish a book is this: Nobody cares as much as you do.
Holly Robinson: A Writer's First Year: "Do Not Snort on NPR" and Other Tips for Flogging Your Book 2010
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Hugh Grant as one of the two front members of an 80s pop band was shriekingly, peek-through-your-fingers gigglingly funny, and the songs they did were OMG perfect.
charmed :) jaylake 2007
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You dingbats have made that abundantly, adamantly, relentlessly, shriekingly clear for years.
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The superb choir always does something special for such a feast and today was no exception - but the Kyrie, Sanctus, and Agnus Dei were all by a modern composer and shriekingly unattractive.
London on a summer Sunday... Joanna Bogle 2008
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Sorry, Auntie, but I can't understand why you would call Judith Bingham's Mass "shriekingly unattractive".
London on a summer Sunday... Joanna Bogle 2008
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The superb choir always does something special for such a feast and today was no exception - but the Kyrie, Sanctus, and Agnus Dei were all by a modern composer and shriekingly unattractive.
Archive 2008-05-01 Joanna Bogle 2008
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His first compromise comes when backing is supplied by mobster Nick Valenti (Joe Viterelli), on the condition that his singularly untalented, shriekingly nasal girlfriend Olive (Jennifer Tilly) gets cast in the play.
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It builds to a shriekingly funny (and scary) revelation and a dénouement so brilliant it's almost demonic.
GreenCine Daily: Interview. Eugene Levy and Christopher Guest. 2006
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