paralytic
noun
a person affected with paralysis.
paralytically
-
a word derived from
paralytic.
Example Sentences
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The Menendez brothers, simply and awfully, made for great television, when great is defined as that which we are paralytically helpless to turn away from.
From Slate ● Sep. 26, 2017
My progress from a weepy self-hating paralytically over-apologetic constantly worrying shy chick to a person who is quite the opposite is absolute testament to that, I believe.
From Time ● Oct. 8, 2014
Once I play the first note of the first song, I'm fine, but before that, I can get paralytically afraid.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 25, 2014
The pistol dropped from his nerveless grasp, thudding gently on the carpet, and, with his fingers crooked paralytically, he stood swaying... and looking into the face of MR.
From The Yellow Claw by Sax Rohmer
His clockwork was gone, or carious; only some miserable fragment of a pendulum continued to oscillate paralytically from mere incapacity of any thing so abrupt, and therefore so vigorous, as a decided HALT!
From Autobiographical Sketches by Thomas De Quincey
