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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It’s a form of corrosively tender stand-up, in essence, one that takes beauty as its subject while acknowledging just how disenfranchised viewers are from feeling anything close to beautiful.
From New York Times ● May 10, 2021
But the boring dystopia meme reminds us the end could arrive quietly but corrosively, with a total erosion of work-life balance, crowdfunding for necessary healthcare, infantilisation by technology and the equation of time with capital.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 6, 2018
It’s corrosively negative, and I think that’s too bad.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 26, 2017
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
