corrosive
adjective
having the quality of corroding or eating away; erosive.
corrosively
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a word derived from
corrosive.
Example Sentences
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Your once-favoured pastime loses status in your 50s, becoming an also-ran in the steeplechase of life, or, more corrosively, a battleground, where daily skirmishes are played out.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 19, 2017
It’s corrosively negative, and I think that’s too bad.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 26, 2017
A corrosively beautiful cocktail of a thriller, Tom Ford’s “Nocturnal Animals” tells three interwoven stories, all of them concerning roughly the same characters, but each one set in a different time and place.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 17, 2016
They know they are in the midst of a crisis of trust, that people do have that corrosively cynical view of what business is for.
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2015
Poor maestra, she is yellow and bitter-skinned, near fifty, but her dark eyes are still corrosively inflammable.
From Twilight in Italy by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
