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Lethally

Lethal \Le"thal\ (l[=e]"thal), a. [L. lethalis, letalis, fr. lethum, letum, death: cf. F. l['e]thal.] Deadly; mortal; fatal. ``The lethal blow.''
--W. Richardson. -- Le"thal*ly, adv.

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lethally

adv. In a lethal manner, in manner which is or will be fatal.

Usage examples of "lethally".

He gasped as the shuttle rolled and its entire side opened A corona of superheated air ripped past, lethally beautiful on the far side of a mono-permeable field of force.

It is highly infective, lethally hot, a liquid that smell of the vomit negro fills the passenger cabin.

I used to go around saying the veil was to disguise lethal perfection, that I was too lethally beautiful for people to stand.

His favored glamour is that of an intensely sexual Highland blacksmith with a powerful rippling body, golden skin, long black hair, and dark, mesmerizing eyes Highly intelligent, lethally seductive.

Document, lest it slip into the official court records, and thus into the hands of the general public, and, thus, somehow, to malicious hackers who might lethally abuse it.

From the hand-blasters carried by officers and senior noncommissioned officers all the way to the Raptors flown by fighter pilots, the Marines were more lethally armed than any force they were likely to come up against.

From my shirt pocket I take a small box cutter, lethally sharp, and slice a gash in the screen.

She sings of a land where it is easier to Dial-A-Devotion than to buy a book, where the freeway sniper, feels 'real bad' about picking off a family of five, where kids in High Kindergarten are given LSD and peyote by their parents, where young hustlers get lethally carried away while rolling elderly filmstars, where six-foot-two drag queens shop for fishnet bikinis, where a twenty-six-year-old woman can consign her five-year-old daughter to the centre divider of Interstate 5 (when her fingers were prised loose from the fence twelve hours later, the child pointed out that she had run after the car containing her family for 'a long time').

But Dylvana horses were swifter still, and Phais, Loric, Ruar, Eilor, Elon, Lyra, and a host of others raced in grim silence after the fleeing Ghulka, the Elves gaining with every stride, their keen blades glinting lethally in the morning sun.

On his way back, Zach stopped at a produce stand and bought a few handfuls of thin, twisted, lethally hot red and green peppers.

The hors d'oeuvre was so lethally hot and spicy that it exploded on contact.

The Indian came up with both Ingrains out, and the guns spat lethally.

During an extended incident in which previously unknown Iconian gateways—essentially, open doorways linking noncontiguous and often distant locations—had suddenly become operational, masses of lethally irradiated material had spilled out of an orbital gateway and threatened the population of the planet.

During an extended incident in which previously unknown Iconian gatewaysessentially, open doorways linking noncontiguous and often distant locationshad suddenly become operational, masses of lethally irradiated material had spilled out of an orbital gateway and threatened the population of the planet.

Not lethally, not even paralyzingly, but solidly enough so that she slumped down, almost unconscious, into a nearby chair.