poisonously
English
Adverb
poisonously (comparative more poisonously, superlative most poisonously)
- In a poisonous manner.
- Thomas Edison
- The x-ray had affected poisonously my assistant, Mr. Dally.
- 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 12, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
- To Edward […] he was terrible, nerve-inflaming, poisonously asphyxiating. He sat rocking himself in the late Mr. Churchill's swing chair, smoking and twaddling.
- Thomas Edison
- (obsolete) Using poison.
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