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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"  Antonym: sanely.
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



... without turning his head a hair's breadth, and without appearing to move an eyelash. The bridegroom is conducted to the house of his bride, there to sit in state, by a band of his relations and friends, some of whom sing shrill verses from the Kuran, while others rush madly ahead, charging, retreating, capering, dancing, yelling, and hooting, brandishing naked weapons, and engaging in a most realistic sham fight, with the bride's relations and friends, who rush out ...
— In Court and Kampong - Being Tales and Sketches of Native Life in the Malay Peninsula • Hugh Clifford

... who had been absent for long months instead of half an hour. An indiscriminately affectionate puppy lay flat and whimpering at Yeovil's feet, sending up little showers of gravel with its wildly thumping tail, while two of the terriers raced each other madly across lawn and shrubbery, as though to show the blue roans what speed really was. The laughing-eyed young groom disentangled the puppy from between Yeovil's legs, and then he was ushered into the grey silence ...
— When William Came • Saki

... unauthentic. Yet how strangely was this book received. It won Macaulay and Longfellow and George Sand, and stirred the heart of Heine. It exasperated the South. The winds of destiny previously let loose were blowing madly now. ...
— Children of the Market Place • Edgar Lee Masters

... rush which carries the enemy's position there is always much mixing of units. The firing line does not continue rushing madly as individuals after the enemy, but halts and fires on him until he gets out of good range. The pursuit is taken up by formed troops held in reserve or by the firing line only after its ...
— Manual for Noncommissioned Officers and Privates of Infantry • War Department

... It seemed hours, days, since she had seen her white frock lying on the bed, and had looked forward to wearing it. Instead of that, here was she tearing madly across the country, her poor uncle lying, it might be, at the point of death. Nothing was the same as it had been in the morning. Would things ever be the same again? What if her uncle should die? No, no, she would not allow herself to ...
— Hunter's Marjory - A Story for Girls • Margaret Bruce Clarke


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