murderously

murderously

English

Etymology

    From murderous + -ly.

    Adverb

    murderously (comparative more murderously, superlative most murderously)

    1. 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.
    2. 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.