maniacally

Example Sentences

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Game 3 was a one-sided clunker, but Game 1, Game 2 and Game 4 all went to sudden-death OT —hockey’s equivalent of dangling you over a bridge by your shoelaces while laughing maniacally.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 13, 2025

But now and then, one of those demons sneaks into the outside world, plants a red flag and screams out maniacally, “Dwaaaagaahaha!”

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 22, 2024

"Next to the vomiting, gurning, maniacally grinning Keaton, she can’t help but seem a little bland and strait-laced."

From BBC • Sep. 9, 2024

They’re all being pursued by a maniacally obsessive villain extravagantly overplayed by Tahar Rahim.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 14, 2024

I laughed maniacally for ten minutes at this irony: that having sacrificed my family to my education, I might lose that, also.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover