murderously
English
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Adverb
murderously (comparative more murderously, superlative most murderously)
- In a murderous manner; as if wanting to commit murder; extremely angrily.
- They decided to stop arguing over which spelling was correct after she began glaring murderously at each person who participated.
- Intensely
- It's a murderously difficult piece to perform.
- 1986, Samuel R. Delany, Joseph Beam, “The Possibility of Possibilities”, in Joseph Beam, editor, In The Life: A Black Gay Anthology, page 208:
- That we inhabit a country in which, for all its murderously real problems, this is a feasible vision is a great privilege.