Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a fuming manner: angrily; in a rage.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In a fuming manner; angrily.

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  • adverb In a rage.

Etymologies

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fuming +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • I'm sure Canada's Blogging Tories, who are fiscally prudent to the point where they're all for slashing funding for the arts, will be fumingly outraged by this egregious fraud perpetrated on the American taxpayer.

    Archive 2008-10-01 CC 2008

  • Hank Freid had never seen this before, and it happened so quickly, and when I called myself from work, the recording was the old classic one, which was not good for my business today b/c it says clearly you†™ ve reached a phone number that†™ s been disconnected or no longer in service†¦ I tried that a few times, then fumingly called AT&T, b/c I had just paid bill Feb 20.

    UPDATED: No Issues? Rosenblatt, Alan 2007

  • Just wanted to send a little tip from a brief but fumingly angry ex-customer.

    Archive 2006-01-01 Michelle Collins 2006

  • Just wanted to send a little tip from a brief but fumingly angry ex-customer.

    An Open Letter to Weight Watchers Michelle Collins 2006

  • By the sixth Diomedean day, Wace had put on a noticeable amount of flesh and was weakly but fumingly aprowl in his room.

    The Earth Book of Stormgate Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1978

  • Florida, who fumingly reported artificial interference on the amateur TV bands.

    The Machine That Saved The World Murray Leinster 1935

  • "He was fighting with a mad dog!" reiterated Wefers, fumingly.

    Further Adventures of Lad Albert Payson Terhune 1907

  • And a report to this effect was delivered to a fumingly distracted German major general, who yearned for a chance to atone in some way for the day's shameful reverses.

    Bruce Albert Payson Terhune 1907

  • Found out we were the only 4 to climb it, and everyone was fumingly jealous and didn't believe us until we showed them our tickets.

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  • How could you be so sure? †And once the public has gotten so fed up that they must resort to constitutionalizing how damn sure they are, liberals start fumingly slamming their gavels in protest.

    NewsByUs Christian Hartsock 2008

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