confusedly

adverb

as in agitatedly

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  1. desperately
  2. uncontrollably
  3. crazily
  4. frantically
Adverb
  • But when careers in public interest law become less financially sustainable – or less financially predictable – recruiting the attorneys communities desperately need becomes even harder.
    — Verna L. Williams, Fortune, 10 Aug. 2026
  • Photos of the missing included a young mother and her baby in Pereira; another showed an 80-year-old woman in Cali whose family was desperately looking for details after her building collapsed.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of desperately
Adverb
  • Meanwhile, wildfires have been blazing uncontrollably, most notably this week in the New Forest in southern England.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 13 Aug. 2026
  • Hydroplaning occurs when a vehicle begins to slide uncontrollably on wet roads.
    — CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 15 July 2026
Definition of uncontrollably
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  • And when Andreeva hits one of her crazily creative shots and turns to Martínez for praise, she is met with a smile, and maybe some clapping.
    — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 4 June 2026
  • The scene used one of the film’s funniest visual gags, an apartment so crazily tilted that nobody inside it could stand up straight.
    — Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 17 May 2026
Definition of crazily
Adverb
  • By halftime, one was at the hospital, and the other was running for his life on every snap while frantically shaking out his throwing hand.
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 14 Aug. 2026
  • Their verbal volley is interrupted as each of them frantically googles quotes and facts on everything from the Zionist leader Jabotinsky to the American actor Jordan Peele.
    — Hannah Seligson, Vanity Fair, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of frantically
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