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poisonously

adv

Etymology

From poisonous + -ly.

  1. inherited from poisounous
  2. suffixed as poisonously — “poisonous + ly”

Definitions

  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.

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