Definition of "poisonously" []

• In a poisonous manner (adverb)
• Using poison (adverb)

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• "The Obama administration has inherited a foreign policy machine weary from attempted nation building, the trauma of which can be seen not just psychologically in America's foreign policy machine, but also economically and politically, as partisanship has risen to poisonously high levels."
• "Barack Obama came to Cannes to urge the Europeans to get their act together, but the American president lacks the moral authority to bang heads together when his own country has a dreadful fiscal position and a poisonously dysfunctional politics."
• "Except for the word “poisonously”, I agree with your comment 100%."