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Murderously

Murderous \Mur"der*ous\, a. Of or pertaining to murder; characterized by, or causing, murder or bloodshed; having the purpose or quality of murder; bloody; sanguinary; as, the murderous king; murderous rapine; murderous intent; a murderous assault. ``Murderous coward.''
--Shak. -- Mur"der*ous*ly, adv.

Syn: Bloody; sanguinary; bloodguilty; bloodthirsty; fell; savage; cruel.

Wiktionary
murderously

adv. In a murderous manner; as if wanting to commit murder; extremely angrily.

WordNet
murderously
  1. adv. as if bent on murder; "the huge dog bore down on them with bared fangs and barking murderously"

  2. in a murderous frenzy; "rioters running amuck and throwing sticks and bottles and stones" [syn: amok, amuck]

Usage examples of "murderously".

From all sides the venomous ghasts rushed feverishly at the creeping Gug, nipping and tearing with their muzzles, and mauling murderously with their hard pointed hooves.

This operation finished, Tim Willows sat down on a box and looked murderously at the dog.

Before the stunned and terror-stricken soldiers thought to block their rush, the batrachians were in their midst, golden blades slashing murderously, poisoned barbs stabbing into the disordered ranks.

A sound seemed to reach me, murderously well regulated, as of sheets of paper sliding out of a Plexiglas machine.

The towel went to the floor in a heap and she was up naked, legs planted wide broached by scissors wielded murderously on the screen where she dug past it for the rag of a book its cover gone, the first twenty odd pages gone in fact, so that it opened full on the line she sought, coming down with the pencil on belying, a sense that he was still a part of all that he could have been.

The battle, therefore, zigzagged coruscatingly and murderously away in the direction of Aldebaran.

With a fierce cry Yasmina sprang like a jungle cat, stabbing murderously.

He rolled sideways, dived, saw the vast form of Balvovats cannon past and carom off the control pedestal, ophidioid members flailing murderously.

Ral’s hairy visage is adorned with a ferocious squint, and he poises a pick-axe murderously above Peter’s head.

He looks up, face still dazed, and sees one red-tipped nail (Rebecca is a through-and-through vision in strawberry red today, no doubt about it) tapping a hook that just gleams out of the crepe, like a fisherman's hook gleaming murderously out of a gaudy lure.

A word to the wise: if you're ever faced by a huge and murderously furious troll, make sure you've got some chocolates on you.