Murderously

adv

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Definitions

Adverb
  1. 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."

Adverb
  1. 1
    in a murderous frenzy wordnet
  2. 2
    as if bent on murder wordnet

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Example

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"They decided to stop arguing over which spelling was correct after she began glaring murderously at each person who participated."

Etymology

From murderous + -ly.

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