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- adverb While
screaming , or as if screaming
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb to an extreme degree
Etymologies
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Examples
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Some people aren’t comfortable displaying their affection in screamingly obvious ways, but this doesn’t mean that they don’t care – they simply prefer to be more subtle.
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You will be hearing a lot more about these six "screamingly" good winemakers.
Marlene Rossman: Cult Wines for Tough Times: Sommelier Journal 2009
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The worry that you should be strolling hand-in-hand through dappled light with a near-stranger you met in the park, enjoying a screamingly new relationship, complete with love bites.
End of an era 2011
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But unlike most of those cliché-riddled movies, this combo could actually be screamingly funny.
Watercooler: Is There a New Romance Brewing on Happy Endings? 2012
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Exiles fans should read Alan Warner's screamingly funny adult novel The Sopranos, about five small town Catholic high school girls on the loose for a day in Edinburgh.
Feeling Funny? Roger Sutton 2009
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I have witnessed three, and the were all screamingly funny.
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"They come in screamingly close," said Sarah Martin in the tiny town of Blanca, Colo., who has seen pilots flying over her home in limited training runs.
Air Force Revises Unpopular Training-Flight Plan in the West Stephanie Simon 2011
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The architectural historian Harry Goodhart-Rendel lectured in the 30s that "it was well-known that Victorian architecture was either bad or screamingly funny, or both".
They saved our Victorian cities. Now they are demolishing my prejudices Simon Jenkins 2010
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In other words, this is your typical Pinkwater novel: screamingly funny, unbelievably weird, and fantastically awesome.
Boing Boing 2009
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It's amazing that a pro like Patterson could have miscalculated so badly everything from the cluttered prologue, with its flashbacks within flashbacks, to the screamingly obvious identity of the villain ...
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