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Madly   /mˈædli/   Listen
Madly

adverb
1.
In an uncontrolled manner.  Synonym: frantically.
2.
In an insane manner.  Synonyms: crazily, dementedly, insanely.  "He behaves crazily when he is off his medication" , "The witch cackled madly" , "Screaming dementedly"
3.
(used as intensives) extremely.  Synonyms: deadly, deucedly, devilishly, insanely.  "Deadly dull" , "Deadly earnest" , "Deucedly clever" , "Insanely jealous"






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"Madly" Quotes from Famous Books



... just yet, Juliette," he pleaded. "Think! I may never see you again; but when you are far from me—in England, perhaps— amongst your own kith and kin, will you try sometimes to think kindly of one who so wildly, so madly worships you?" ...
— I Will Repay • Baroness Emmuska Orczy

... practicable instant, he had "stopped" and "backed," leaving the victory with us. It was a tremendous relief when the pressure was removed from our overstrained nerves; and never were cheers given more enthusiastically, even madly, than those which saluted the people of the Champion at ...
— Breaking Away - or The Fortunes of a Student • Oliver Optic

... I was aware of a bushy black beard and a pair of piercing eyes turned upon us through the side window of the cab. Instantly the trapdoor at the top flew up, something was screamed to the driver, and the cab flew madly off down Regent Street. Holmes looked eagerly round for another, but no empty one was in sight. Then he dashed in wild pursuit amid the stream of the traffic, but the start was too great, and already the ...
— The Hound of the Baskervilles • A. Conan Doyle

... presumptuous mortals Heaven arraign, And, madly, godlike Providence accuse? Ah, no! far fly from me attempts so vain;— I'll ne'er submission to my ...
— My Recollections of Lord Byron • Teresa Guiccioli

... silence of a printed page is a wholly impossible thing. Nothing but a language of noise could convey the proper impression. An editor who visited the Chicago exchange in 1879 said of it: "The racket is almost deafening. Boys are rushing madly hither and thither, while others are putting in or taking out pegs from a central framework as if they were lunatics engaged in a game of fox and geese." In the same year E. J. Hall wrote from Buffalo that his exchange ...
— The History of the Telephone • Herbert N. Casson


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