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- adverb In an
overdramatic manner.
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Examples
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The scissor skull thing refers and overdramatically I suspect to late term abortion.
Think Progress » Limbaugh on Michael J. Fox: ‘I Take Back None of What I Said’ 2006
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[TWICE!] 3. overdramatically ridiculed [dismembered practically] for how i speak.
pojken Diary Entry pojken 2006
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And now it's been reported that Mel Gibson has entered a booze rehabilitation program or, as his slave Alan Nierob slightly overdramatically put it: He has entered into an ongoing program of recovery.
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Sighing overdramatically, Belinda said, “Fine, the beach, then, as long as I get you out of this damn attic!”
Breakdowns Keith R.A. DeCandido 2003
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Sighing overdramatically, Belinda said, “Fine, the beach, then, as long as I get you out of this damn attic!”
Breakdowns Keith R.A. DeCandido 2003
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You should also realize that to get to the room we were in, one would have had to have passed through the ungodly crowded main room, teeming with goths either overdramatically dancing or frozen in carefully premeditated poses reflecting the trendy darkness in their equally trendy tortured souls.
bard Diary Entry bard 2003
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Sighing overdramatically, Belinda said, “Fine, the beach, then, as long as I get you out of this damn attic!”
Breakdowns Scott Ciencin 2003
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Sighing overdramatically, Belinda said, “Fine, the beach, then, as long as I get you out of this damn attic!”
Breakdowns Keith R.A. DeCandido 2003
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Alcaren shrugged, almost overdramatically, it seemed to Secca.
The Shadow Sorceress Modesitt, L. E. 2001
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Each summer evening at eight-thirty a "History Began Here" recording overdramatically blared out facts and figures, spotlights playing on pertinent Giza monuments, while tourists sat huddled en masse on folding chairs.
From This Beloved Hour Lambert, Willa 1982
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