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Drastic cuts in public spending any time soon, as proposed by several of these candidates, look wildly irresponsible given the headwinds the US economy is facing from abroad.
I'm as happy as the next person to welcome new life (on to our wildly over-populated planet) – hurray for Paul McCartney and David Jason at 61, Pavarotti, 68 and George Lucas doing it at 69 – but my heart goes out to those children.
As a further insult, London bristles with two-storey Victorian terraces that are a wildly inefficient use of such coveted space.
McCann swung wildly , screwing the ball right-footed wide of Neil Alexander's left post.
He shoots wildly across the face of goal and his effort swerves wide of the right upright.
Dead Man's Shoes, the eviscerating 2004 revenge drama that he co-wrote, may still be his calling card, but he long ago proved his versatility with comic performances in Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg's Hot Fuzz and The World's End, and, respectively, understated and then wildly overstated roles in Richard Ayoade's Submarine and The Double.
I regret that my question could be misinterpreted, and that it enabled many to ignore the substance of the question – and Putin's evasive response – in order to speculate, wildly and incorrectly, about my motives for asking it.
What is absolutely crystal clear is that, in the wildly unlikely event that any charges are brought against him, we would absolutely have to get him off them.
The International Monetary Fund estimate of a 5.5% decline in gross domestic product this year looks wildly optimistic given hyper-inflation and the devastation caused to the eastern half of the country.
By March, English local-authority spending on the arts and culture will be down by 16% since 2009-10, but with the picture varying wildly : Somerset County Council, for example, has cut its arts provision by 100%.
Djokovic was not entirely friendless, and his supporters (including some in the press seats, it has to be said) cheered wildly when Murray hit long in the second game and the Serb grew in strength and determination, powering on to the finish line for the loss of a single game in that concluding set.
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The primary grammatical function of "wildly" is as an adverb . It modifies verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs to describe the manner in which an action is performed or a quality is exhibited. Ludwig AI confirms this and offers numerous examples illustrating its usage.
Expression frequency: Very common
