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  • adverb In an edgy manner

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Examples

  • Lyndsey Turner's brisk, imaginative production is also very well acted by Anthony O'Donnell as the accused father, Colin Morgan as his edgily hysterical son and Adrian Schiller as an acquisitive shrink dreaming of translating his clients' misfortunes into the purchase of a Grand Cherokee jeep.

    Our Private Life – review 2011

  • Magazine reading for Middles, though (moving the goalposts in from both coasts), is best defined by the literary output of staid airlines such as Southwest, Delta, and Continental (as opposed to the more edgily cosmopolitan JetBlue and Virgin).

    Class Dismissed 2009

  • Magazine reading for Middles, though (moving the goalposts in from both coasts), is best defined by the literary output of staid airlines such as Southwest, Delta, and Continental (as opposed to the more edgily cosmopolitan JetBlue and Virgin).

    Class Dismissed 2009

  • But black humor that was edgily appropriate in novels with adult protagonists is much more unsettling when employed to depict the misadventures of a young boy.

    "Exley," a new comic novel by Brock Clarke Wendy Smith 2010

  • Bill Shakes booked edgily at George, but George didn't notice "Big government project in the harbor," George said.

    I Don’t Understand ? Jack Varnell 2010

  • Marcus Sedgwick, whose cold-climate novel Revolver must surely have just missed the Carnegie medal, has set the edgily disturbing White Crow (Orion Children's Books £9.99) in a scorching summer on the crumbling Suffolk coast.

    Summer reading for teenagers: darkness, danger and charity shops Geraldine Brennan 2010

  • Ellen asked edgily, uncertain if she wanted to know that the tranquillity and certainty of her married life had been compromised before.

    The Home for Broken Hearts Rowan Coleman 2010

  • “Hey—you could just ask,” Charles said edgily as, without warning, Janie lunged across him to grab the paper.

    The Night Of the Solstice L.J. SMITH 2010

  • The question, of course, is whether a late-starting candidate with big ideas and an uncommon penchant for taking the time to explain them, a relatively small bankroll and a name so generally unknown that his literature and campaign pins feature pronunciation cues ( "/gae-gun/") really make a dent in the most aggressively and edgily political city in the country?

    Thomas Geoghegan Campaign. An Idea. A New Political Paradigm 2009

  • I am one of the fortunate who can afford or at least edgily afford health care.

    Dallas Blog, Daily News, Dallas Politics, Opinion, and Commentary FrontBurner Blog D Magazine » Blog Archive » Giant Pac-Man to Eat Downtown Dallas on Sunday 2009

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