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Definition of Screamingly
1. Adverb. To an extreme degree. "Screamingly funny"
Definition of Screamingly
1. Adverb. While screaming, or as if screaming ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Screamingly
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Screamingly
Literary usage of Screamingly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. George Eliot's Life as Related in Her Letters and Journals by George Eliot (1885)
"But you would be screamingly amused with one, twenty-three pages long (from an
Edinburgh man, by-the-bye), who has not read the book, but has read of it, ..."
2. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1906)
"Mr. Cobb's monologues were screamingly funny and he had hard work getting away
from the audience. Professor Carlos Cole, better known as Charlie Cole of the ..."
3. The Century (1902)
"The little dinners for which Gladys was justly famous degenerated into side-splitting
affairs at which no one could eat, so screamingly funny were Aunt ..."
4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1877)
"... though when not so held it followed the arm when extended; a tilting of the
pelvis to the left side as the child screamingly clung to its mother, ..."
5. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1887)
"The latter screamingly absurd. Do you remember when Clotilde Mr. Punch. _Yes,
perfectly. Very droll, but not eminently successful, I believe. Ли plaisir! ..."
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