toxically
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7.0
- adverb
- /ˈtɒksɪkli/
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tóxicamente
- I really like the idea of "honoring" one's experience and one's pain, and there can be a creative exploration of how to do that that doesn't involve staying toxically connected to one's perpetrator.
I was toxically masculine because of the fact that I was afraid.
- I was toxically masculine because of the fact that I was afraid.
- We are manipulated into buying products and eating foods that are actually toxically, addictively unhealthy.
- But what about when it's the narcissist who is the one who is toxically positive?
- And I just figure out and understand that all those people who are, you know, who are really anxious to an extent where it's toxic and they're toxically needy.
Examples
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What about when it's the narcissist who is the one who is toxically positive?
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I was toxically masculine because of the fact that I was afraid.
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Anything that has been made toxically by man made talks, you know, made by humans is going to destroy cellular health.
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But what about when it's the narcissist who is the one who is toxically positive?
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There are two separate issues in play with all this that have become toxically intertwined.
Blog text (19) -
We are manipulated into buying products and eating foods that are actually toxically, addictively unhealthy.
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Saying sorry helped me tremendously, put the thoughts related to the situation to rest, and brought us back into healthy communication, absent underlying troubled waters that would otherwise have toxically affected our subsequent interactions.
Blog text (9) -
MacAndrew and Edgerton (1970: 165) believe that aggressive reactions to alcohol are learned rather than a function of "toxically disinhibited brains operating in impulse-driven bodies."
Academic text (1991) -
The chemicals in the cleaning product are used toxically, endangering both health and the environment.
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Eating foods that are toxically laden with preservatives can lead to serious health issues.
Synonyms
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4.9
In a way that causes harm
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4.3
In a way that causes damage or hurts others
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7.2
In a way that harms people or things
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4.4
In a way that causes harm or bad results
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9.0
In a way that causes harm or damage
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8.9
In a way that causes harm slowly without being noticed
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7.3
To speak or act in a very hurtful and angry way
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2.8
In a way that could cause harm
A harmful way that hurts people, animals, or plants
In a way that causes great harm
In a dangerous way that can cause harm
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How Harmful
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Morphology
Etymology
Toxically comes from an old Greek idea of 'poison for arrows' and from the root toxon meaning 'bow', and we still use the same root in toxin and toxic, which mean 'poisonous'. So, to act toxically is to act in a 'poisonous' or harmful way.