venomously
Example Sentences
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Portman Road erupted as the ball flew into the net, venomously struck by the left-back, beating keeper Gavin Bazunu at his near post.
From BBC ● Apr. 1, 2024
To the end, Mr. Taylor stayed unpredictable and irreverent — sometimes lashing out at the use of pointwork in ballet, once writing venomously to a number of critics, often wicked about artists dead and alive.
From New York Times ● Aug. 30, 2018
“A lot is expected of us,” echoed Ronan, who is making her Broadway debut as Abigail Williams, the teenager who venomously accuses the village’s most virtuous citizens of witchcraft.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 10, 2016
The language he used is venomously over-the-top and, like every Champion screed I’ve ever read, contorted with labored metaphors of bodily disgust and humiliation.
From Salon ● Sep. 30, 2014
He hated the chaplain venomously for being a chaplain and making a coarse blunder out of an observation that in any other circumstances, he knew, would have been considered witty and urbane.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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