Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- With destruction; ruinously; mischievously; with power to destroy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a destructive manner.
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- adverb in a
destructive manner: in a way that causesdestruction
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- adverb in a destructive manner
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Examples
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South Africa's landless people would react "destructively" if the government failed to keep its land reform promises, the
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In Bush's case, he used it cynically and destructively.
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But our good intentions are rechanneled destructively by a grand narrative that is equal parts pernicious, inaccurate, and pervasive.
Matthew Fraidin: Changing the Narrative of Child Welfare Matthew Fraidin 2011
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But our good intentions are rechanneled destructively by a grand narrative that is equal parts pernicious, inaccurate, and pervasive.
Matthew Fraidin: Changing the Narrative of Child Welfare Matthew Fraidin 2011
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The majority of the Republican-right, have little to say creatively and a lot to say destructively.
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If anyone needs proof of how destructively polarized national politics has become, one need only consider yesterday's vote in the Senate on President Obama's nomination of Goodwin Liu to serve on the United States Court of Appeals.
Geoffrey R. Stone: Judicial Filibusters: Partisanship Run Amok Geoffrey R. Stone 2011
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I bet they are good followers of Karl Max, active social forces work exactly like natural forces: blindly, forcibly, destructively, so long as we do not understand and reckon with them.
Democrats slam GOP as party of 'fear' in health care debate 2009
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In Bush's case, he used it cynically and destructively.
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If anyone needs proof of how destructively polarized national politics has become, one need only consider yesterday's vote in the Senate on President Obama's nomination of Goodwin Liu to serve on the United States Court of Appeals.
Geoffrey R. Stone: Judicial Filibusters: Partisanship Run Amok Geoffrey R. Stone 2011
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In Bush's case, he used it cynically and destructively.
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