poisonously
advEtymology From poisonous + -ly.
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In a poisonous manner.
- c. 1900, Thomas Edison, quotation The x-ray had affected poisonously my assistant, Mr. Dally.
- 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:
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Obsolete Using poison.