Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- With destruction; ruinously; mischievously; with power to destroy.
Wiktionary
- adv. in a destructive manner: in a way that causes destruction
GNU Webster's 1913
- adv. In a destructive manner.
WordNet 3.0
- adv. in a destructive manner
Etymologies
- destructive + -ly (Wiktionary)
Examples
“South Africa's landless people would react "destructively" if the government failed to keep its land reform promises, the”
“I bet they are good followers of Karl Max, active social forces work exactly like natural forces: blindly, forcibly, destructively, so long as we do not understand and reckon with them.”
“If anyone needs proof of how destructively polarized national politics has become, one need only consider yesterday's vote in the Senate on President Obama's nomination of Goodwin Liu to serve on the United States Court of Appeals.”
The Huffington Post: Geoffrey R. Stone: Judicial Filibusters: Partisanship Run Amok
“In Bush's case, he used it cynically and destructively.”
“The majority of the Republican-right, have little to say creatively and a lot to say destructively.”
“But our good intentions are rechanneled destructively by a grand narrative that is equal parts pernicious, inaccurate, and pervasive.”
The Huffington Post: Matthew Fraidin: Changing the Narrative of Child Welfare
“But there is a deep current of violence in our world today that is affecting us destructively . . . individually, communally, nationally, and globally.”
The Huffington Post: Judith Barr: Gaddafi is Dead - A Culture of Needless Violence
“I know very few people, apart from enablers in abusive relationships, who can feel saintly love for a person behaving destructively, nor is it appropriate in my opinion.”
“Just the other night $5,000USD worth of copper tubing was stolen at a local construction site and I am speaking of copper tubing in inventory and tubing already installed that was ripped out of partially constructed walls most destructively.”
“Sooner or later, the cyber equivalent of 9/11 will occur — and, if the real 9/11 is a model, we will understandably, but destructively, overreact.”
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Adverbia
A long list of adverbs, beginning with full-drive. Someone had to list them. This list in continued in the list More Adverbia.
Read some sniping and some informative commentary about a...full-drive, portentously, unlawfully, legally, heterogeneously, consumingly, clancularly, inconsolably, prepositionally, retrogressively, symptomatically, decrepitly and 2460 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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