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poisonously

poisonously adverb: in a poisonous manner.

Adverb

poisonously (comparative more poisonously, superlative most poisonously)

  1. In a poisonous manner.
    • The x-ray had affected poisonously my assistant, Mr. Dally.c. 1900, Thomas Edison, quotation
    • To Edward […] he was terrible, nerve-inflaming, poisonously asphyxiating. He sat rocking himself in the late Mr. Churchill's swing chair, smoking and twaddling.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC
  2. (obsolete) Using poison.

Forms of poisonously

comparativemore poisonously
superlativemost poisonously

Origin of poisonously

From poisonous + -ly.

Questions about poisonously

What does poisonously mean?
Poisonously means in a poisonous manner.
What part of speech is poisonously?
Poisonously is an adverb.

Words near poisonously in the dictionary

  1. poisonmakers
  2. poisonmonger
  3. poisonmongers
  4. poisonous
  5. poisonous compliment
  6. poisonously
  7. poisonousness
  8. poisonpie
  9. poisons
  10. poisons the well
  11. poisonsome

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