homicidally

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adverb

In a homicidal manner.

Scrabble 22

Meanings

adverbhomicidally (comparative more homicidally, superlative most homicidally)

comparative more homicidally · superlative most homicidally

  1. In a homicidal manner.

    Ismay and Heather share a festering secret that poisons more than one relationship in this London household before seeping out and infecting all the neighbors — including the homicidally inclined Marion and her abominable brother, Fowler, who have made a career of preying on the love-starved.

    2007 July 22, Marilyn Stasio, “Money for Nothing”, in New York Times
  2. For the purpose of committing homicide.

    `[A]senic use was widespread. Not that we have a reliable test for it, it is not much used, homicidally.'

    2016, Kerry Greenwood, Murder and Mendelssohn, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 317

Origin

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Chicago

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