poisonously
adverb
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adv
Etymology: Etymology tree English poisonous Middle English -ly English -ly English poisonously From poisonous + -ly.
- 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.”
- Using poison.