hysterical
Example Sentences
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They were all pretty mad, especially the district supervisor, and Mrs. Wendleken was hysterical by the time somebody let them out.
From Literature
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“Everything—everything—about it is darkly hysterical,” she wrote.
On the other end of the phone, his wife became hysterical, but Mr Li didn't have time to panic.
From BBC
The press’s hysterical reaction was perhaps inevitable given the convention of describing it as an “administration plan,” a “White House plan,” with the implied institutional imprimatur.
The initial headlines were so outrageous I assumed they represented a hysterical media overreaction to some mild remark.
From MarketWatch
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