Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a chaotic state or manner; in utter confusion.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a chaotic manner.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a
chaotic manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a manner suggestive of chaos
- adverb in a wild and confused manner
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Examples
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She left 40 homemade booklets, containing around 800 poems, and at least 1,000 more kept chaotically on loose sheets, the backs of envelopes, even a chocolate wrapper.
Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds by Lyndall Gordon – review 2011
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Therefore we could take the literal word “cheating” from the lyrics and throw this into a scene in which a protagonist finds out his or her lover has been unfaithful and is in the process of storming out of a room, tearing things from the walls and running into the night outside; surviving, albeit chaotically, a violent break-up of a doomed relationship.
Top 10 Songs That Should Be Used in a Movie » Scene-Stealers 2009
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Instead of unfolding in a nice, linear, straightforward manner, these colliding events will happen quite rapidly and chaotically.
Chris Martenson, Ph.D.: Prediction: Things Will Unravel Faster Than You Think Ph.D. Chris Martenson 2010
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But there's nothing liberating, either, no matter what apostles of "free markets" tell us: It's one thing to break up congealed, stodgy conventions and sweep away intellectual cobwebs; it's another do do it so relentlessly and chaotically that there's never a chance to cultivate any humane alternative.
Jim Sleeper: Markets, New Media, the Occupiers, and the Next Step Jim Sleeper 2011
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Charity was a pronounced element in the show — the spectacle of this strange young soul, in despair or recklessness, chaotically seeking occasions for compassion: taking a bath with a homeless man (“Who gets trench foot in the year 2002?!”), or romancing an elderly lady.
Brit Wit 2009
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Instead of unfolding in a nice, linear, straightforward manner, these colliding events will happen quite rapidly and chaotically.
Chris Martenson, Ph.D.: Prediction: Things Will Unravel Faster Than You Think Ph.D. Chris Martenson 2010
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Blackett chaired a five-man panel which was charged by the council with looking into how the RFU was governed during Steele's nine-month reign, which ended chaotically as he was forced out amid a claimed loss of confidence following a late-night board meeting.
Report plunges rugby into fresh civil war as RFU row rages on 2011
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I had trouble simply importing stuff into MediaMonkey, and it sorted the stuff I imported very chaotically.
Lifehacker Pack 2009: Essential Free Windows Downloads | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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But here it is, chaotically shot and narrated by the culprits themselves and painstakingly reassembled.
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But there's nothing liberating, either, no matter what apostles of "free markets" tell us: It's one thing to break up congealed, stodgy conventions and sweep away intellectual cobwebs; it's another do do it so relentlessly and chaotically that there's never a chance to cultivate any humane alternative.
Jim Sleeper: Markets, New Media, the Occupiers, and the Next Step Jim Sleeper 2011
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