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melodramatically

ADVERB
  1. as in a melodrama
    here, the hero is melodramatically reunited with the heroine
  2. in an overly emotional manner
    she acted melodramatically when she called for help

How To Use melodramatically In A Sentence

  • Many things of this nature had been done by the new commonwealth; but, alas! she did not drape herself melodramatically, nor stalk about with heroic wreath and cothurn. History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce — Complete (1584-1609)
  • The love passages are pauses in a course of violent action, the assassination of Rizzio, the murder of Darnley are not overcoloured melodramatically, and the scenes in and about the Studies in Literature and History
  • The dangers of writing either melodramatically or reductively about the slaughter and terror at the center of these new killing fields are all too real.
  • she acted melodramatically when she called for help
  • here, the hero is melodramatically reunited with the heroine
  • Referred to jokily in some correspondence as “Waldstein”—the name of Roald’s favorite Beethoven piano sonata—in letters home, he was also portrayed melodramatically as “a dark cunning little Jew.” Storyteller
  • She is not hooked on soap operas, she is melodramatically fixated.
  • For God's sake," Michael said melodramatically, "Whatever you do, don't look down.
  • Africanized honey bees - melodramatically labeled "killer bees" - are the result of honey bees brought from Africa to Brazil in the 1950s.
  • She pantomimed hurt, placing her free hand melodramatically on her breast.
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