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- adverb In an
apoplectic manner.
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Examples
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To start, he's left an army of his own employees--state workers--apoplectically angry.
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Daughtry, to behold his captain, frayed and bleeding and breathing apoplectically, Michael raging in ghastly silence at the end of a mop, and a large Persian mother-cat writhing with a broken back.
CHAPTER VI 2010
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So next morning, Saturday July 13, 1878, before the leading statesmen of Europe had even penned their signatures to the treaty, Otto Bismarck was goggling apoplectically at a telegram from London informing him that the whole sixty-four articles, preamble, etc., were in that day's Times - with an English translation.
Watershed 2010
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Mr. Let's-Be-a-New-Friendly-Church, under the pressure of fear for himself, accuses her of disobeying her vows, which includes, he says, almost apoplectically, the Vow of Obedience.
Archive 2009-08-01 Fresca 2009
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And I'm just wondering - I also read on a pro-life blog not long ago -- that Steny Hoyer was apoplectically reaming the pro-life Democrats after a vote sometime ago.
Bruce Wilson: Blue Dog Leader Works With Theocratic "Mafia" Opposed to Health Care Reform 2009
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Mr. Let's-Be-a-New-Friendly-Church, under the pressure of fear for himself, accuses her of disobeying her vows, which includes, he says, almost apoplectically, the Vow of Obedience.
My Religious Life, Condensed Fresca 2009
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Instead of defending himself giving interviews to CNBC, Thain should be apoplectically apologizing.
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And I'm just wondering - I also read on a pro-life blog not long ago -- that Steny Hoyer was apoplectically reaming the pro-life Democrats after a vote sometime ago.
Bruce Wilson: Blue Dog Leader Works With Theocratic "Mafia" Opposed to Health Care Reform 2009
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Together we tried to reason our way through your tortured casuistry to uncover exactly what it is that has you so clearly and apoplectically vexed about Reverend Wright.
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Courage is making a movie called Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay in which George W. Bush is a sympathetic character, especially considering that most of the audience would probably disagree apoplectically with the sentiment.
Alex Remington: Harold & Kumar 2: Best War on Terror Movie Ever (Though That's Not Saying Much) 2008
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