Example Sentences

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Have we become poisonously cynical or properly sceptical?

From BBC • Mar. 7, 2026

“Let me tell you something in confidence,” he says, poisonously.

From New York Times • Jan. 24, 2024

In fact, the persecution has only made her more poisonously smug in her Android unilateralism.

From Slate • Mar. 18, 2023

But the baggage of those years has lingered poisonously on.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 11, 2015

I shot to my feet, the paper rattling poisonously in my hands.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison