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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



... also did his household, and missed his son, who was found dead a short way from the door. This Hrut felt as the greatest bereavement, and had a cairn raised over Kari. Then he rode to Olaf Hoskuldson and told him the tidings of what had happened there. Olaf was madly wroth at this, and said it showed great lack of forethought that they had allowed such scoundrels as Kotkell and his family to live so near to him, and said that Thorliek had shaped for himself an evil lot by dealing as he had done with Hrut, but added that more must have been done than Thorliek ...
— Laxdaela Saga - Translated from the Icelandic • Anonymous

... to be met with by the dozen in every nook and corner: swarming down below with their own baggage, and stumbling over other people's; disposing themselves comfortably in wrong cabins, and creating a most horrible confusion by having to turn out again; madly bent upon opening locked doors, and on forcing a passage into all kinds of out-of-the-way places where there is no thoroughfare; sending wild stewards, with elfin hair, to and fro upon the breezy decks on unintelligible ...
— American Notes for General Circulation • Charles Dickens

... very well in theory; but it will never do in practice. If the British Government, urged on by a set of fanatics, who, in reality are more anxious to bring themselves into notice, than to emancipate the slaves, madly persist in adopting their ridiculous project, it will involve the ...
— Flora Lyndsay - or, Passages in an Eventful Life • Susan Moodie

... multiplied, he compressed his waist, he excited his horse to a gallop in order to catch and accompany my carriage to the promenade: he compromised me with the grace of a young collegian, and was considered madly in love with me. I was steadfastly cruel, but accepted his arm and his bouquets. We were talked about. I was delighted, and managed before long to be surprised by my husband, with the viscount on the ...
— Petty Troubles of Married Life, Second Part • Honore de Balzac

... many a shout Across the stage still madly sweep, Whilst the tired serving-men without Wrapped in their sheepskins soundly sleep. Still the loud stamping doth not cease, Still they blow noses, cough, and sneeze, Still everywhere, without, within, The lamps illuminating shine; The steed benumbed ...
— Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] - A Romance of Russian Life in Verse • Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin


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