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poisonously

adverb

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adv

Etymology: Etymology tree English poisonous Middle English -ly English -ly English poisonously From poisonous + -ly.

  1. In a poisonous manner.

    c. 1900, Thomas Edison, quotation The x-ray had affected poisonously my assistant, Mr. Dally.

    To Edward […] he was terrible, nerve-inflaming, poisonously asphyxiating. He sat rocking himself in the late Mr. Churchill's swing chair, smoking and twaddling.

  2. Using poison.