Venomously

adv. [f. VENOMOUS a. + -LY².] In a venomous manner; with venom or virulence; fiercely, malignantly, virulently. Chiefly fig.

c. 1400.  [see VENOMLY adv.].

c. 1450.  Metham, Wks. (E.E.T.S.), 47. The serpent namyd jaculus,… Qwat that he vppon fallyth, so venymusly he doth yt smyght, That forth-with yt deyth.

1591.  Percivall, Sp. Dict., Chinche, a worme that in hot countries lieth about beds, and biteth venemously. Cimex.

1605.  Shaks., Lear, IV. iii. 48 (Q.). These things sting his mind, So venomously that burning shame detaines him from Cordelia.

1652.  Gaule, Magastrom., 360. He … put his hand into the hole, and had it most venomously bitten by a poysonous serpent.

1687.  Dryden, Hind & P., III. 1172. His praise of Foes is venomously Nice.

1868.  Farrar, Seekers, I. ii. (1875), 34. These facts are surely sufficient to refute … those gross charges against the private character of Seneca, venomously retailed by a jealous Greekling.

1880.  Mrs. Forrester, Roy & V., III. 134. ‘Oh, yes,’ he cried venomously, ‘you look very innocent.’

1898.  J. Arch, Story Life, xvi. 385. The Union … was venomously assailed by men who up till then had declared they were its best friends.