Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a melodramatic manner; with exaggerated speech or action.
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- adverb In a
melodramatic manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb as in a melodrama
- adverb in an overly emotional manner
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Examples
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I love how the title melodramatically bellows: SNAKE SIGHTED! yet later on the victim is exhorted to: Please remain calm …
The RiotACT 2009
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I love how the title melodramatically bellows: SNAKE SIGHTED! yet later on the victim is exhorted to: Please remain calm …
The RiotACT 2009
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Unfortunately, though not surprisingly, Sanchez melodramatically played the Hispanic Immigrant, Steerage-Class card as the reason he wasn't a made man instead of considering the fact that he had a bad habit of making a boob out of himself on national television.
Chez Pazienza: I, Sanchez Chez Pazienza 2010
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Unfortunately, though not surprisingly, Sanchez melodramatically played the Hispanic Immigrant, Steerage-Class card as the reason he wasn't a made man instead of considering the fact that he had a bad habit of making a boob out of himself on national television.
Chez Pazienza: I, Sanchez Chez Pazienza 2010
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Then, too, many Chicagoans (white ones, at least) ran around bemoaning their Daley-less fate, and an ordinary if racially-tinged power struggle came to be known melodramatically as Council Wars.
Kelly Kleiman: Democracy Is Not a Tragedy Kelly Kleiman 2010
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Unfortunately, though not surprisingly, Sanchez melodramatically played the Hispanic Immigrant, Steerage-Class card as the reason he wasn't a made man instead of considering the fact that he had a bad habit of making a boob out of himself on national television.
Chez Pazienza: I, Sanchez Chez Pazienza 2010
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Or so I was told by Linden this spring, as he melodramatically reenacted the scene with his wife, Jeanee.
Village Dreamers 2009
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Unfortunately, though not surprisingly, Sanchez melodramatically played the Hispanic Immigrant, Steerage-Class card as the reason he wasn't a made man instead of considering the fact that he had a bad habit of making a boob out of himself on national television.
Chez Pazienza: I, Sanchez Chez Pazienza 2010
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One is delivered melodramatically by Devin Norik as Harold.
Michael Giltz: Theater: Harvard's Secret Gay Shame in Unnatural Acts Michael Giltz 2011
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Unfortunately, though not surprisingly, Sanchez melodramatically played the Hispanic Immigrant, Steerage-Class card as the reason he wasn't a made man instead of considering the fact that he had a bad habit of making a boob out of himself on national television.
Chez Pazienza: I, Sanchez Chez Pazienza 2010
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