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[gid-ee] / ˈgɪd i /


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Now, Garmus is back with her second book, Peck & Peck, which is “a workplace comedy, a New York City coming-of-age story, and a giddy satire.”

From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2026

Slump-shouldered where their 20th-century technological predecessors were giddy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

"He was giddy, wasn't he? He's just laughing at what's happening. Fantastic," she said.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

I said, giddy to have a break from home and the tornado of emotions that had been haunting me all day.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026

I passed my hand over my eyes, feeling slightly giddy.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya

Yet the truth this winter is far giddier, fuller, louder.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 18, 2020

And that has to make TV executives and the league’s billionaire owners even giddier than they usually are at this time of year.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 27, 2016

Diane Paulus’s dynamic, high-flying revival of “Pippin” has become a warmer, giddier show in its 16 months at the Music Box Theater, and that’s really not a bad thing at all.

From New York Times ● Aug. 22, 2014

Alas, making fun and profit of the George Lucas saga is a tactic about 30 years behind the curve; Mel Brooks did it, with giddier panache, in the 1987 Spaceballs.

From Time ● Aug. 1, 2014

Reuben led, and since the others must needs follow at the pace he set, the old master was led to a giddier step than he had ever danced to in a church before.

From Aunt Rachel by David Christie Murray

They made the last eight and are three matches from the giddiest glory.

From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2025

It’s the giddiest, most thrilling, most fabulous show in town.

From New York Times ● Jan. 29, 2023

It’s terrific that that she gets both the story’s emotional high point and its purest, giddiest moment of comic anarchy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2020

Based on a 1962 trading card series, Mars Attacks! is Tim Burton at his absolute giddiest.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 8, 2019

Also he’d invested part of it in some of the giddiest raiment them theatrical clothing houses can supply.

From Odd Numbers Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe by Sewell Ford

The tone was correctly contrite, but Susan felt underneath the confidence that he would be forgiven—the confidence of the egotist giddied by a triumph.

From Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise by David Graham Phillips

Thus, so suddenly that it giddied me, I was translated from failure to success, from poverty to affluence, from the most harassing anxiety to ease and security.

From The Plum Tree by E. M. Ashe

And now he remained stock-still, thinking that he had really tired his father out, for they had ridden like mad that morning, intoxicated with the smooth length of the roads, giddied with excessive speed.

From Small Souls by Louis Couperus

By inverting the perspective, Mr. Daoud shifts the focus from the absurdity of Meursault’s act in the giddying sunlight to the blindness of the colonial mind-set.

From New York Times ● Oct. 6, 2022

The reversal of fortunes for the island nation’s most powerful politician for decades has been giddying.

From Reuters ● May 12, 2022

Nobody who saw “Something Wild,” in 1986, can ever forget the giddying swerve of the plot.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 29, 2017

And Seth MacFarlane’s R-rated comedy “A Million Ways to Die in the West” placed No. 5, giddying up to $7.2 million.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2014

Geologists, as McPhee has noted, found themselves in the giddying position that "the whole earth suddenly made sense."

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson


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