Hyperkinetically

adv

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Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    With, or as if with, the exaggerated movements of hyperkinesis.

    "But on Monday, it became a place where Suren Seneviratne, a 22-year-old disc jockey, stood atop a 26-foot-high plinth, wearing a homemade panda costume and hyperkinetically talking on the phone."

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"But on Monday, it became a place where Suren Seneviratne, a 22-year-old disc jockey, stood atop a 26-foot-high plinth, wearing a homemade panda costume and hyperkinetically talking on the phone."

Etymology

From hyperkinetic + -ally.

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