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Savagely

Savagely \Sav"age*ly\, adv. In a savage manner.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
savagely

c.1400; see savage (adj.) + -ly (2).

Wiktionary
savagely

adv. In a wild, uncontrolled, or savage manner.

WordNet
savagely
  1. adv. in a vicious manner; "he was viciously attacked" [syn: viciously, brutally]

  2. wildly; like an animal; "she cried out savagely"

Usage examples of "savagely".

Room, Beery was standing at a telephone, jiggling the hook up and down savagely, yelling at the operator to trace the call.

Mrs Possum bit him savagely and naughty Blinky at once kicked her, scratching and ripping her best hat to shreds.

Pushing aside the low branches of the wattle, they discovered Blinky and his mother, huddled up together and growling savagely.

Thus, with food and bedding I returned to my lair, where after a meal of raw meat, to which I had now become quite accustomed, I dragged the bowlder before the entrance and curled myself upon a bed of grasses--a naked, primeval, cave man, as savagely primitive as my prehistoric progenitors.

Yet correspondents knew that readers at the breakfast table would be hungry for details about Combles, where the taking of the Schwaben Redoubt or Regina Trench, which were defended savagely, had no meaning.

Torquil stumbled over a passage, and brought his hands down in a crashing discord, ejaculating savagely: Fool, fool, cowhanded fool!

Uncle John skipped over to the sand bank and clutched Gys savagely by the collar.

At the coming of that thought, the foul doing to death of the fearless Frenchman, he gnashed his teeth savagely and strained at the gyves until the pain in his ankles brought out beads of perspiration upon his forehead.

And the fat-faced tourists whispering to each other about the crazy haole wondering who he was must be from old Island family who appeared to be more savagely Hawaiian than the Kanaka natives.

Warder, growling savagely, went along the back wall of the hut, and, despite the semi-darkness, his eyes scintillating with menace through the cracks drove from them a crouching figure who turned hastily to grip the axe near the myall logs.

Weed dug his fingers into his eyes, more savagely than need be, for sleep was numbing his senses.

A big soldier in crossed ammo bandoliers and an ill-fitting fur schapska backhanded her savagely, and her shout was broken off in a muffled sob.

It was close to midnight when he let himself into his house, but there was a dim light burning in the living room and Dan turned in here, cast his hat and coat on top of the piano and rang savagely for Sooey Wan, who, having just returned from his nightly pilgrimage to Chinatown, answered on the jump.

She raised her hand towards his face, intending to draw her nails savagely across it, to do anything .

Ferdinand will treat the Jews in Prague just as savagely as he treated the Utraquists and the Unity of Brethren.