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  • adverb In a headless way.

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headless +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • As she sings in her current single "Hang With Me," -- "Just don't fall recklessly, headlessly in love with me," all we can say as her audience is -- too late, we already did.

    Salvatore Bono: Robyn Stuns Terminal 5 Salvatore Bono 2010

  • As Robyn sings in her current single "Hang With Me," -- "Just don't fall recklessly, headlessly in love with me," all we can say as her audience is -- too late, we already did.

    Salvatore Bono: Robyn Stuns Terminal 5 Salvatore Bono 2010

  • As Robyn sings in her current single "Hang With Me," -- "Just don't fall recklessly, headlessly in love with me," all we can say as her audience is -- too late, we already did.

    Salvatore Bono: Robyn Stuns Terminal 5 Salvatore Bono 2010

  • As she sings in her current single "Hang With Me," -- "Just don't fall recklessly, headlessly in love with me," all we can say as her audience is -- too late, we already did.

    Salvatore Bono: Robyn Stuns Terminal 5 Salvatore Bono 2010

  • As she sings in her current single "Hang With Me," -- "Just don't fall recklessly, headlessly in love with me," all we can say as her audience is -- too late, we already did.

    Salvatore Bono: Robyn Stuns Terminal 5 Salvatore Bono 2010

  • As she sings in her current single "Hang With Me," -- "Just don't fall recklessly, headlessly in love with me," all we can say as her audience is -- too late, we already did.

    Salvatore Bono: Robyn Stuns Terminal 5 Salvatore Bono 2010

  • One wonders what happened to the PSOE of Spain who under Felipe Gonzalez took Spain out of third world status with the today's PSOE who seems headlessly running into walls and possibly compromising the well being of Spain.

    03/27/2005 - 04/03/2005 2005

  • One wonders what happened to the PSOE of Spain who under Felipe Gonzalez took Spain out of third world status with the today's PSOE who seems headlessly running into walls and possibly compromising the well being of Spain.

    Rodriguez Zapatero, el tonto útil (the useful fool) 2005

  • Then shall we discover that the price of brotherhood is not nearly so costly or so illusory as the price we have been headlessly paying for the lack thereof.

    The Price of Brotherhood 1956

  • It was needful, it was necessary, it was contingent that Nigeria could not plod on headlessly.

    AllAfrica News: Latest 2010

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