Synonyms:
madly, frantically
Meaning: in an uncontrolled manner; "she fought back madly"
Usage examples
They rallied, fought madly, and retreated again.
The storm has cleared her blood; she needs food and exercise, and is biting madly.
"Two hundred and fifty yards away, the dark blue men were firing madly in a thin film of light-blue smoke.
Scarcely had she done so, when the yellow bird burst into a joyous and golden song, and flying to the window, beat madly against the panes.
Now just as Marianna bent over the Prince to touch his forehead with the water of healing, the yellow bird screamed and cried as madly as if he were caught in a net.
Thus did an uncompromising democrat pay court to the shades of Royalty, while a mocking-bird sang from a fringe-bush by the gate, and an oriole flew madly from tree to tree in pursuit of a fair creature of the reluctant sex.
To be held paralyzed, with one's back toward some horrible and unknown danger from the very sound of which the ferocious Apache warriors turn in wild stampede, as a flock of sheep would madly flee from a pack of wolves, seems to me the last word in fearsome predicaments for a man who had ever been used to fighting for his life with all the energy of a powerful physique.