Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a purulent manner; as pus.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- verb In a purulent manner.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a
purulent manner.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Too many articles about people who blog on sex and relationships are purulently held up as freaks see most of the coverage about girlwithaonetrackmind and others or sad figures, rather than considering the serious choices they have made.
Ms R interviews a woman of experience Ms Robinson 2008
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You state damaging figures of deaths during incarceration once again without citations and when they are cited they're cited from the most hateful unreliable sources hostile to the administration discovered while purulently pouring over material supportive of your internal narrative cultivated by the political party to which you're beholden.
Bill Kristol on the Saddleback Forum. Ann Althouse 2008
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Achilles can inveigle from malcontent Ajax, under the one condition, that he shall be called on to do nothing but abuse and slander, and that he shall be allowed to abuse as much and as purulently as he likes, that is, as he can; — in short, a mule, — quarrelsome by the original discord of his nature; — a slave by tenure of his own baseness, — made to bray and be brayed at, to despise and be despicable.
Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
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