[
US
/ˌhɪsˈtɛɹɪkɫi/
]
[ UK /hɪstˈɛɹɪkli/ ]
[ UK /hɪstˈɛɹɪkli/ ]
ADVERB
-
in a hysterical manner
she screamed hysterically when she heard the news
How To Use hysterically In A Sentence
- She fell backwards, laughing hysterically as the kittens pawed at her nose and tugged on her hair.
- I was laughing hysterically as he disentangled himself from it and tackled me in the sand.
- The inquest heard how a plan was hatched that the pair should both swim across the river, but Mr Holding had not been in the water long when he began shouting hysterically and stopped moving.
- The class was laughing hysterically and Bree whirled around and yelled at them to rack off.
- In February this year, social workers at the airport reported that she had cried hysterically for hours.
- Bernard?" Her voice rose hysterically.
- It always surprised me when Jem would laugh hysterically if Ben zinged me with the ultimate joke of which I was the victim.
- Once we finished slurping our drinks and chomping down on pizza, we laughed hysterically at the guys' jokes and stories.
- However, their over-the-top rock cabaret works because the audience are hysterically complicit.
- She cried hysterically, and said that he would always despise her. Daniel Deronda