destructivelyadv.
In a destructive manner.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [adverb]
ruinouslyc1450
perniciously1533
consuminglya1542
wastefully?1567
locust-like1596
fatallya1616
extinctively1633
destructively1661
shatteringly1818
destroyingly1820
corrosively1831
1661 Grand Deb. Rev. & Alteration Bk. Common Prayer 122 Which lookt upon our hopes of Reformation, almost as destructively as the Papists Doctrine of Infallibility doth.
1665 T. Manley tr. H. Grotius De Rebus Belgicis 255 The French Wars raged destructively, both at Sea and Land.
a1714 M. Henry Wks. (1835) I. 37 Nothing really and destructively evil.
1895 N.E.D. at Destructively Mod. Fluoric acid acts destructively upon glass.
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