Stephen King and others have teased Rowling for overusing adverbs when describing speech.

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The earlier sculptures, he says, were more like adverbs than nouns.

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He also told me to get rid of those adverbs.

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But the slogan could stand in, only a little unfairly, for the Democrats' general failure to get their communicative act together, right down to an inability to get their adverbs and subjects to agree.

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" "Lolly, Lolly, Lolly get your adverbs here.

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Few or no adjectives and adverbs.

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