单词 | poisonously |
释义 | poisonouslyadv.ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > poison > [adverb] poisonly1558 poisonfully1599 poisonously1646 toxically1887 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 175 The Antipathy between a Toad and a Spider, and that they poisonously destroy each other, is very famous. View more context for this quotation 1694 R. South 12 Serm. II. 456 So much more poysonously and incurably does the serpent bite with his tongue than with his teeth. 2. In a poisonous manner. Also figurative: damagingly, maliciously, dangerously; disgustingly. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > [adverb] evilc1275 balefullya1375 harmfullyc1374 teenfullya1375 wickedlya1375 unsoundlyc1400 ill1483 mischievously1512 noisomely1589 infectiously1609 evilly1631 damageably1648 poisonously1746 noxiously1755 injuriously1809 nocuously1847 damagingly1854 banefully1865 damnously1884 the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > [adverb] perilously1340 wothely?a1400 parlouslyc1425 jeopardouslya1513 dangerously?1544 dangerfully1548 dangerousa1616 badly1673 poisonously1746 the mind > emotion > suffering > displeasure > [adverb] > in unpleasant manner illa1275 unsavourly1377 unlovelyc1400 sour?a1513 beastly?1518 unfaringly1519 unpleasantly1542 ill-favouredly1545 uncomfortably1548 offensively1576 ungratefullya1586 adversely1593 unpleasingly1597 displeasantly1607 unsavourily1611 distastefully1631 unwelcomely1642 displeasurably1648 disagreeably1656 disgustfully1731 displeasingly1731 unpalatably1741 poisonously1746 undelightfully1749 awfully1815 unpleasurably1823 objectionably1825 unagreeably1850 disgustingly1856 undesirably1890 1746 Earl of Orrery tr. Pliny the Younger Epistles i. x. 44 We shall find Dion to have been an author, not only poisonously exact in his characters, but guilty of manifest falshood. 1762 Prophecy Merlin 6 Fruit promisingly fair to the eye, but poisonously rotten at the heart. 1799 J. M. Adair Ess. Regimen 39 The leaves of the green tea shrub are of so poisonously acrid a nature, as to blister and ulcerate the hands. 1855 Littell's Living Age 14 July 82/2 Snuff is, we are sorry to say, vilely adulterated, and some kinds poisonously. 1871 G. H. Napheys Prevention & Cure Dis. i. viii. 245 Foul air which acts poisonously upon the system. 1908 D. G. Phillips Worth of Woman p. v Spicing up and coloring up perfectly innocuous facts of nature to make them poisonously attractive to perverted palates. a1911 D. G. Phillips Susan Lenox (1917) II. iv. 91 The tea was frightful stuff—not tea at all, but cheap adulterants colored poisonously. 1927 ‘S. Rohmer’ Moon of Madness 18 He was a poisonously handsome none-such. 1984 A. N. Wilson Hilaire Belloc i. viii. 195 Cecil Chesterton was poisonously and notoriously anti-semitic. 1999 J. Lethem Motherless Brooklyn 86 The car smelled poisonously new, vinyl squeaking like an Indian burn. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adv.1646 |
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