Meanings
adverbmaniacally (comparative more maniacally, superlative most maniacally)
comparative more maniacally · superlative most maniacally
- In a maniacal manner; frantically.
Marquise was scissoring his arms back and forth in the air as if he were weaving on an invisible loom; he was telling them a story, maniacally.
2008, Jesmyn Ward, Where the Line Bleeds, Bloomsbury (2018), page 116
Origin
Translations
Russian маниака́льно
- маниака́льно (maniakálʹno)in a maniacal manner
Spanish maníacamente, maniacamente
- maníacamentein a maniacal manner
- maniacamentein a maniacal manner
- maniáticamentein a maniacal manner
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