The Collaborative International Dictionary
Baneful \Bane"ful\, a.
Having poisonous qualities; deadly; destructive; injurious;
noxious; pernicious. ``Baneful hemlock.''
--Garth. ``Baneful
wrath.''
--Chapman.
[1913 Webster] -- Bane"ful*ly, adv.
-- Bane"ful*ness, n.
Wiktionary
adv. In a baneful way.
WordNet
adv. in a noxiously baneful way; "this banefully poisoned climate" [syn: perniciously]
Usage examples of "banefully".
Fishhead, an early achievement, is banefully effective in its portrayal of unnatural affinities between a hybrid idiot and the strange fish of an isolated lake, which at the last avenge their biped kinsman's murder.
At length the child -- whose age is then thirteen -- comes upon a cryptic and banefully beautiful thing in the midst of a dark and inaccessible wood.
I saw Tom stareing at him banefully, but I took no notice, merely getting out and kicking the tires to see if air enough in them.
His ancient broadsword flashed banefully in the light of burning tents, flashed till its encrimsoned length could flash no more, but seemed rather to eat light as it ate life.
The great mill of Bloome crouched upon the eastern edge of the city, a heaped monstrosity, glaring banefully through a hundred eyes, growling and munching as it ate the provender brought by the citizens, spewing out its cloth in endless lengths to be rolled into bolts and carried away.
There was no mistaking the opal-eyed cats staring banefully up at her from the heavily carved end sticks.