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