1
: in a mad manner
2
: to an extreme or excessive degree
madly in love
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Examples of madly in a Sentence
He told her that he loved her madly.
She fell madly in love with him.
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Salmon schooled along the shore and leaped madly at nothing.
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Kevin West, Travel + Leisure, 4 Jan. 2025
Herr Knock is retreating madly away from the camera, just prattling on, dancing maybe, soulless, gone.
—Wesley Morris, New York Times, 25 Dec. 2024
The rest of us stand there madly spinning our mental resume - Board director?
—Ann Kirschner, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
The first causes Apollo to fall madly, irrevocably in love with the nymph Daphne, while the second causes Daphne to revile Apollo, forcing her to transform into a laurel tree to escape his advances.
—Mariana Fernández, ARTnews.com, 18 Dec. 2024
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Kevin West, Travel + Leisure, 4 Jan. 2025
Herr Knock is retreating madly away from the camera, just prattling on, dancing maybe, soulless, gone.
—Wesley Morris, New York Times, 25 Dec. 2024
The rest of us stand there madly spinning our mental resume - Board director?
—Ann Kirschner, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
The first causes Apollo to fall madly, irrevocably in love with the nymph Daphne, while the second causes Daphne to revile Apollo, forcing her to transform into a laurel tree to escape his advances.
—Mariana Fernández, ARTnews.com, 18 Dec. 2024
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“Madly.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/madly. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.
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