hysterically
Americanadverb
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in an unrestrained or uncontrolled way.
Whatever she’s thinking comes out her mouth, so the whole team was hysterically laughing at her commentary on our game films.
Keisha slid to the damp pavement in a heap and buried her face in her hands, sobbing hysterically.
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in a way that is very funny.
My friend's daughter is hysterically paranoid about autoflush toilets, so we’re always on the lookout for a traditional toilet just in case.
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stemming from or caused by conversion disorder.
A group of hysterically blind Cambodian women in California are the largest group of such people known in the world.
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Hysterically, though, they partially ground this argument in one of the greatest pieces of legal and political chutzpah this case has yet seen.
From Slate • Apr. 16, 2018
Hysterically they told what had happened and how the boat's skipper, one Majin Alvarez Piedra, had started swimming to shore.
From Time Magazine Archive
Hysterically cried one Irving Brukstone, representing Chicago's Sterling Cleaners: I won't advise my clients to stand by these prices!
From Time Magazine Archive
Hysterically, Ditty pleaded with Dr. Smith not to tell her father.
From Time Magazine Archive
Hysterically the frogs displaced from their placid spots swam ahead of the crazy thrashing feet and the feet came on.
From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck
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