Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In the manner of invective; censoriously; abusively.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In an invective manner.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb In an invective manner.

Etymologies

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invective +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • Meanwhile, to this day, the three main newspapers in Venezuela are opposition-run, and invectively anti-Chavez.

    Sean Penn: Mountain of Snakes 2008

  • However, in regard to the Tibet Incident, common Chinese people launched a jihad against Western media, and treated Western people invectively.

    Phayul Latest News 2008

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