murderously

adv — 2 senses

murderously

adv

Etymology From murderous + -ly.

1

In a murderous manner; as if wanting to commit murder; extremely angrily.

  • They decided to stop arguing over which spelling was correct after she began glaring murderously at each person who participated.
2

Intensely

  • It's a murderously difficult piece to perform.
  • That we inhabit a country in which, for all its murderously real problems, this is a feasible vision is a great privilege.1986, Samuel R. Delany, Joseph Beam, “The Possibility of Possibilities”, in Joseph Beam, editor, In The Life: A Black Gay Anthology, page 208:

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