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murderously en · ADV

Etymology

Etymology tree English murderous Middle English -ly English -ly English murderously From murderous + -ly.

Meanings

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.
   • That we inhabit a country in which, for all its murderously real problems, this is a feasible vision is a great privilege. 1986, Samuel R. Delany, Joseph Beam, “The Possibility of Possibilities”, in Joseph Beam, editor, In The Life: A Black Gay Anthology, page 208:

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