Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a poisonous manner; with fatal or injurious effects.
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- adverb in a
poisonous manner - adverb obsolete using
poison
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a very malevolent manner
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Examples
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Unregulated millions are pouring across borders, buying poisonously negative ads.
Don C. Reed: Protect the House! Don't Let GOP Bullying Win! Don C. Reed 2010
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Unregulated millions are pouring across borders, buying poisonously negative ads.
Don C. Reed: Protect the House! Don't Let GOP Bullying Win! Don C. Reed 2010
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Coburn may be a villain for other reasons, but this situation seems really ambiguous — too much so for phrases like “moral monster” and “poisonously misguided”. drkrick says:
Matthew Yglesias » Obstructionism from Tom Coburn (R-Oklahoma) Boosting Lord’s Resistance Army 2010
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What one may not do, it seems, is differ with the orthodoxy that the tetralogy is “a poisonously misogynistic work.”
Monster of Marriage 2010
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Great American presidents are celebrated for their courage to tell the truth and take action against poisonously bigoted enemies.
Craig Alan Silverman: Waiting for Barack Obama Craig Alan Silverman 2011
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Except for the word “poisonously”, I agree with your comment 100%.
Matthew Yglesias » Conservative Lawyers Slam Cheney/Kristol Attack on DOJ Lawyers 2010
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The Obama administration has inherited a foreign policy machine weary from attempted nation building, the trauma of which can be seen not just psychologically in America's foreign policy machine, but also economically and politically, as partisanship has risen to poisonously high levels.
Daniel Wagner: Obama's Unfinished Business Daniel Wagner 2011
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The Obama administration has inherited a foreign policy machine weary from attempted nation building, the trauma of which can be seen not just psychologically in America's foreign policy machine, but also economically and politically, as partisanship has risen to poisonously high levels.
Daniel Wagner: Obama's Unfinished Business Daniel Wagner 2011
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Barack Obama came to Cannes to urge the Europeans to get their act together, but the American president lacks the moral authority to bang heads together when his own country has a dreadful fiscal position and a poisonously dysfunctional politics.
The only power world leaders have is to frustrate each other | Andrew Rawnsley 2011
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Great American presidents are celebrated for their courage to tell the truth and take action against poisonously bigoted enemies.
Craig Alan Silverman: Waiting for Barack Obama Craig Alan Silverman 2011
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