dementedly

adv : in an insane manner; "she behaved insanely"; "he behaves

crazily when he is off his medication"; "the witch

cackled madly"; "screaming dementedly" [syn: {insanely},

{crazily}, {madly}] [ant: {sanely}]

demented

Yet another term of disgust used to describe a program. The

connotation in this case is that the program works as

designed, but the design is bad. Said, for example, of a

program that generates large numbers of meaningless error

messages, implying that it is on the brink of imminent

collapse.

[{Jargon File}]

(1994-12-07)