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[ adverb ] in an excited manner

Synonyms

with_excitement

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 .

Related terms

excited excited

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