maniacally

Example Sentences

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Game 3 was a one-sided clunker, but Game 1, Game 2 and Game 4 all went to sudden-death OT —hockey’s equivalent of dangling you over a bridge by your shoelaces while laughing maniacally.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 13, 2025

"Next to the vomiting, gurning, maniacally grinning Keaton, she can’t help but seem a little bland and strait-laced."

From BBC • Sep. 9, 2024

“Singularly, almost maniacally, devoted to one thing, they practice an attention to detail that is as precise and exacting as it is gorgeous in its finished quality.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2024

They’re all being pursued by a maniacally obsessive villain extravagantly overplayed by Tahar Rahim.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 14, 2024

She tilted her head back and laughed maniacally.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff