poisonously

English

Etymology

poisonous +‎ -ly

Adverb

poisonously (comparative more poisonously, superlative most poisonously)

1. 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.

2. (obsolete) Using poison.