homicidally

English

Etymology

homicidal +‎ -ly

Adverb

homicidally (comparative more homicidally, superlative most homicidally)

  1. In a homicidal manner.
    • 2007 July 22, Marilyn Stasio, “Money for Nothing”, in New York Times‎:
      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.
  2. For the purpose of committing homicide.
    • 2016, Kerry Greenwood, Murder and Mendelssohn, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 317:
      `[A]senic use was widespread. Not that we have a reliable test for it, it is not much used, homicidally.'
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