poisonously
- a word derived from poisonous.
Example Sentences
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Have we become poisonously cynical or properly sceptical?
From BBC • Mar. 7, 2026
But all the actors, especially Craig, Curtis, and Evans, seem to relish wrapping their mouths around Johnson’s poisonously funny dialogue.
From Slate • Nov. 14, 2019
She tells the story of Fulvia, the wife of Mark Antony, who visited the corpse of Cicero, who had poisonously inveighed against her husband.
From New York Times • Dec. 5, 2017
Till now: Ashford was 9 when she was cast as a poisonously ambitious child star in "Ruthless!"
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2015
I shot to my feet, the paper rattling poisonously in my hands.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
