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[ adverb ] in an excited manner
Synonyms Examples "she shook his hand excitedly" Used in print (Leon Uris, Mila 8....)Styka sat beside him and pumped his hand excitedly . (John Cheever, "The Brigadier and the Golf Widow,"...)`` I got a_hundred and sixty dollars for the hepatitis fund '' , she said excitedly when he walked in . (Octavia Waldo, A Cup of the Sun....)Calloused fingers , caressed only by the smoothness of polished rosaries , had swayed excitedly beneath puckered chins where tiny black hairs sprouted , never to be tweezed away . |
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