disruptively
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- adverb
- /dɪsˈrʌptɪvli/
:
de manera disruptiva
- Too many people look at the liberty crowd and have a vision of violent anarchists who act disruptively with unstoppable anger.
What's your most disruptively brutal life lesson?
- What's your most disruptively brutal life lesson?
Examples
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What's your most disruptively brutal life lesson?
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That means focusing—deeply, disruptively—on learning and talent, as John Hagel, Chris Meyer, and others have emphasized.
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These two projects have been hated, dissed, and dismissed for much of their existence, but soon folks will see just how disruptively awesome they are.
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Despite this word's disruptively vigorous trochaic spasm, though, we learn immediately that the wind it describes is "dead."
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If the student recognizes that a teacher is indifferent to his or her success, the student may behave disruptively in order to gain attention or to take control of the class.
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Even more disruptively, in light of the international art world's intellectual pretensions, Hirschhorn's Monument took the local inhabitants seriously as potential Bataille readers.
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Durant stages his archive as a spatial unconscious where repressed contents return disruptively and different practices mix entropically.
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Hermeneutic communism is about the politics of emergencies that (a) disruptively take place in the neoliberal status quo of "the lack of emergency" and (b) occur at the time when only the "remains of being" are left.
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The complicated play of identificatory and dis-identificatory mechanisms at work in the content, construction, and location of the Bataille Monument was radically and disruptively thought-provoking: the "zoo effect" worked two ways.
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The protesters acted disruptively, blocking traffic and demanding change.
Synonyms
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In a loud, often unpleasant way
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In a loud, wild, and very lively way
In a loud, excited, and disorderly way
In a rough, violent way with strong movement
In a loud, out of control way that draws attention
In a loud, noisy way that causes trouble
In a noisy, energetic way that is hard to control
Antonyms
How Disruptive
Surface Forms
Morphology
disruptively = disruptive (transparent) = disrupt + ive + ly
Formed by adding the adverbial suffix '-ly' to the adjective 'disruptive', a standard and predictable derivation.
Etymology
The word disruptively comes from two parts: dis- meaning 'apart' and rupt meaning 'break', the same root in rupture and interrupt. So to act disruptively is to 'break apart' the usual order or cause a disturbance.