poisonously

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English

Etymology

poisonous +‎ -ly

Adverb

poisonously (comparative more poisonously, superlative most poisonously)

  1. In a poisonous manner.
    • Thomas Edison
      The x-ray had affected poisonously my assistant, Mr. Dally.
    • 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 12, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
      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. (obsolete) Using poison.