banefully
banefully adverb: in a baneful way.
Adverb
banefully (comparative more banefully, superlative most banefully)
- In a baneful way.
- True, there might be a slight difficulty in the shame, but as regarded the sin, there was no item of that kind ever scored down on the Bar-slate that had its own familiar peg whereon to hang such tales of evil as must pain and shock every pure mind—tales of devilish import, eventualizing, in most...1855, J. Dacres Devlin, Rules & Regulations of the Ballast-Heavers' Brotherhood of the Port of London
Forms of banefully
| comparative | more banefully |
|---|---|
| superlative | most banefully |
Origin of banefully
From baneful + -ly.
Questions about banefully
- What does banefully mean?
- Banefully means in a baneful way.
- What part of speech is banefully?
- Banefully is an adverb.
Words near banefully in the dictionary
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