The Collaborative International Dictionary
Histrionically
Histrionic \His`tri*on"ic\, Histrionical \His`tri*on"ic*al\, a.
Of or relating to the stage or a stageplayer; befitting a theatre; theatrical.
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Affectedly dramatic; insincerely emotional; -- sometimes used in a bad sense. -- His`tri*on"ic*al*ly, adv.
Tainted with false and histrionic feeling.
--De Quincey.
Wiktionary
histrionically
adv. In a histrionic manner.
Usage examples of "histrionically".
In their place she pinned up a poster of a starving black child and a chart which eventually recorded a handsome donation to the Biafran famine relief fund, amassed by the girls from a summer fair, Christmas carol-singing and a sponsored fast during which Suzie Chamfer histrionically fainted in the lavatories.