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"I felt there was a sort of giddy tone," Earl Spencer told the BBC.

From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026

McCarthy, Ballard and Connally met in person for the first time at a Sept. 1 hearing and sat together, practically giddy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

I’m very assured that the warped mind of Katie Dippold will helm us into a giddy storm.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026

The signs are all around that Wall Street is back in that dangerous atmosphere of giddy euphoria that those with long memories will remember from the infamous dot-com bubble of the late 1990s.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026

I can barely contain my delight as his expression shifts from confused to shocked to downright giddy.

From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller

As well-received as Death Cab’s brisk run through “Transatlanticism” was, prompting a standing ovation, the crowd was even giddier for the once-in-a-decade chance to see The Postal Service.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 7, 2023

Yet the truth this winter is far giddier, fuller, louder.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 18, 2020

And that has to make TV executives and the league’s billionaire owners even giddier than they usually are at this time of year.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 27, 2016

Alas, making fun and profit of the George Lucas saga is a tactic about 30 years behind the curve; Mel Brooks did it, with giddier panache, in the 1987 Spaceballs.

From Time ● Aug. 1, 2014

Was there ever a giddier creature?—Yet this is the celebrated, the blazing Clarissa—Clarissa what?

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 3 by Samuel Richardson

They made the last eight and are three matches from the giddiest glory.

From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2025

It’s terrific that that she gets both the story’s emotional high point and its purest, giddiest moment of comic anarchy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2020

Buoyant and brazen in her black velour leotard, Flynn stood out as the giddiest of the bunch, often wagging her tongue from the side of her mouth as she pursued exercise stations like a tornado.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 23, 2016

What, if anything, does it mean that the giddiest, most euphoric popular music ever produced in the United States bubbled and kicked up its heels while the country was sliding into the Great Depression?

From New York Times ● Feb. 23, 2014

Under all your cloakings of vagary I observe that you have a foundation of common-sense, just as the giddiest weathercock is bedded on a stone.

From Lysbeth, a Tale of the Dutch by Henry Rider Haggard

And now he remained stock-still, thinking that he had really tired his father out, for they had ridden like mad that morning, intoxicated with the smooth length of the roads, giddied with excessive speed.

From Small Souls by Louis Couperus

Thus, so suddenly that it giddied me, I was translated from failure to success, from poverty to affluence, from the most harassing anxiety to ease and security.

From The Plum Tree by E. M. Ashe

The tone was correctly contrite, but Susan felt underneath the confidence that he would be forgiven—the confidence of the egotist giddied by a triumph.

From Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise by David Graham Phillips

By inverting the perspective, Mr. Daoud shifts the focus from the absurdity of Meursault’s act in the giddying sunlight to the blindness of the colonial mind-set.

From New York Times ● Oct. 6, 2022

The reversal of fortunes for the island nation’s most powerful politician for decades has been giddying.

From Reuters ● May 12, 2022

Nobody who saw “Something Wild,” in 1986, can ever forget the giddying swerve of the plot.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 29, 2017

But within them lies the revolution’s threat, and its living, giddying possibilities.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 16, 2016

Geologists, as McPhee has noted, found themselves in the giddying position that "the whole earth suddenly made sense."

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson