Wiktionary
adv. In a hectic manner.
WordNet
adv. in a frenzied manner; "we rehearsed frenziedly the last few days before the premiere" [syn: frenziedly]
Usage examples of "hectically".
Group Ten, after a few hectically happy days ashore, boarded an escort carrier and cruised to San Francisco, loafing happily, eating steaks two and three times a day and congratulating each other on having been assigned to the Big E with her long, stable deck instead of the bobbing postage stamp of the CVE.
And while Grenouille chopped up what was to be distilled, Baldini hectically bustled about heating a brick-lined hearth — because speed was the alpha and omega of this procedure — and placed on it a copper kettle, the bottom well covered with water.
The pigeon expended far less energy coasting around at a safe height than he did flinging his arm hectically about, and he realized that a law of diminishing returns would soon set in on this point.