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homicidally

homicidally adverb: in a homicidal manner.

Adverb

homicidally (comparative more homicidally, superlative most homicidally)

  1. In a homicidal manner.
    • Ismay and Heather share a festering secret that poisons more than one relationship in this London household before seeping out and infecting all the neighbors — including the homicidally inclined Marion and her abominable brother, Fowler, who have made a career of preying on the love-starved.2007 July 22, Marilyn Stasio, “Money for Nothing”, in New York Times
  2. For the purpose of committing homicide.
    • `[A]senic use was widespread. Not that we have a reliable test for it, it is not much used, homicidally.'2016, Kerry Greenwood, Murder and Mendelssohn, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 317

Forms of homicidally

comparativemore homicidally
superlativemost homicidally

Origin of homicidally

From homicidal + -ly.

Questions about homicidally

What does homicidally mean?
Homicidally means in a homicidal manner.
What part of speech is homicidally?
Homicidally is an adverb.

Words near homicidally in the dictionary

  1. homi
  2. homichlophobia
  3. homicidal
  4. homicidal necrophiliac
  5. homicidality
  6. homicidally
  7. homicide
  8. homicider
  9. homiciders
  10. homicides
  11. homicidious

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