consumptive
adjective
tending to consume; destructive; wasteful.
consumptively
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a word derived from
consumptive.
Example Sentences
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She was naturally a pretty girl, but was growing rapidly haggard, and was badly made up, rouged in wrong places consumptively, powdered everywhere disastrously.
From Flames by Robert Smythe Hichens
One was consumptively inclined, he told me, and being an old soldier, was receiving a small pension.
From Historic Waterways?Six Hundred Miles of Canoeing Down the Rock, Fox, and Wisconsin Rivers by Reuben Gold Thwaites
