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hectically

[ UK /hˈɛktɪkli/ ]
ADVERB
  1. in a frenzied manner
    we rehearsed frenziedly the last few days before the premiere

How To Use hectically In A Sentence

  • I think mainly in the realm of film, if something is too hectically edited. "If there really was a God here, he'd have raised a hand by now."
  • Under the barrel roof of York Hall – a boxing venue – music by Underworld sends a metallic beat through the action, and giant videos flicker behind a hectically lit revolving stage. Hamlet; Passion; Beautiful Burnout; Wanderlust
  • This worry was not allowed to disrupt the hectically demanding pace of his reading tours, however, for his progress up and down the country was dependent on the relative efficiency of the railway.
  • Everything else is going fine, fine, fine - but hectically so, as I'll say time and time again.
  • The managerial carousel at St James 'Park has whizzed round so hectically in recent years that the club's owners might have been forgiven for examining their history and wondering if they might not do better to revert to getting the team picked and run by a selection committee. Newcastle United must do the right thing with Chris Hughton
  • Now, looking at the horrendous pictures on television and participating hectically in the local efforts, it seems just a matter of chance that one survived.
  • Then you do really think," hectically, "that if I take this medicine," mechanically reaching out for it, "I shall regain my health? The Confidence-Man
  • The parcel leans against a wall hectically Blu-tacked with Julian's drawings: from potato men sprouting arms and legs "My Mummy", to skyscrapers and towers and a not bad charcoal sketch of Raffael, their old alsatian, tattered but surviving. Polly Samson | The Man Who Fell
  • The fact that she is pressurised and hectically busy is no excuse, and the usual tribal claims that she is brilliant at her job should not be weighed in the balance where her wisdom - if not probity - is in question.
  • Doug of course sees the writing on the wall -- what with Jeffrey Deitch hectically preparing a survey of street art for MOCA's Geffen wing for 2011, a whole lot of recent high art history is about to be erased from the canon to make room for what has been going on outside the museum walls for the past two or thee decades. Mat Gleason: LA Art World Gossip, October 2010
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