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In an uncontrolled manner
Answer for the clue "In an uncontrolled manner ", 6 letters:
wildly
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Word definitions for wildly in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adv. to an extreme or greatly exaggerated degree; "the storyline is wildly unrealistic" in an uncontrolled or unrestrained manner; "He gesticulated wildly" with violent and uncontrollable passion; "attacked wildly, slashing and stabbing over and over"
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., from wild (adj.) + -ly (2).
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wildly \Wild"ly\, adv. In a wild manner; without cultivation; with disorder; rudely; distractedly; extravagantly.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adverb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES fluctuate wildly ▪ Insect populations fluctuate wildly from year to year. gesticulated wildly ▪ Jane gesticulated wildly and shouted ‘Stop! Stop!’ scream wildly (= in a loud and uncontrolled way ) ▪ Poor George, screaming ...
Usage examples of wildly.
I ran, carrying the cat litter box like a pizza tray, disrupting the class, causing Winnie to become highly agitato, unable to explain because I had a cigar in my mouth and was carrying a pizza tray and running for my life from men who were carrying wildly beeping receivers which made them Israeli spies and men who were wildly firing weapons which made them Arab terrorists and the whole macho parade failing to arouse or interest the girls in the slightest, which, of course, made them lesbians.
As those words were written on his chart Amado Ortega was dying of bubonic plague in its wildly infectious pneumonic form.
When I began asking, a little wildly, what they had found beyond the anomaly, his withered hand lifted impatiently to cut me off.
The pound had been fluctuating wildly in the money markets of the world and the arbitrage dealers had made a killing.
Even Seri, usually level-headed and calm, had flung herself on Aris, sobbing wildly, in the first hours after.
The street they were following crossed a small square in which a wildly gesticulating ayatollah clad in a yellow tunic and green smock was haranguing a crowd pressed from wall to wall.
Then, wildly reckless, she commandeered her last cloth length of linen for bandaging and packed the leftover victuals into her satchel.
Clod, Aunt Viney, and, above all, Bim, who barked loudly, and rushed wildly about the room at this honorable mention of his name.
Perceiving that his thoughts were beginning to veer wildly, Crockett gulped the last of his meal and followed Brockle Buhn to the anthracite tunnel.
They struck at him wildly at first, and their blows, unable to make proper con-tact with his fast moving form, slid harmlessly off the smooth curved ceramite of his armour.
They struck at him wildly at first, and their blows, unable to make proper contact with his fast moving form, slid harmlessly off the smooth curved ceramite of his armour.
About twenty paces behind, Abrane, Fleetwood, and one whom they called Chummy Potts, were wildly waving arms.
Mother cried out in a fright, and struggled up into a sitting posture, and clutched wildly at anything that would help her.
There she was, waving wildly as she ran along the concourse toward the debarkation gate.
His linguistic writings, though often rather wildly dilettantish, are interesting for his great insight into the shades of meaning of words, for his pious, if uninformed, interest in Old Russian literature and folklore, and for the excellent Russian in which they are written.