deadly
IPA: dˈɛdɫi
adjective
- (obsolete, rare) Subject to death; mortal.
- Causing death; lethal.
- Aiming or willing to destroy; implacable; desperately hostile.
- Very accurate (of aiming with a bow, firearm, etc.).
- (informal) Very boring.
- (informal, Australian Aboriginal, Ireland, Newfoundland) Excellent, awesome, cool.
adverb
- (obsolete) Fatally, mortally.
- In a way which suggests death.
- Extremely, incredibly.
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Examples of "deadly" in Sentences
- The bug's venom is 10 times more deadly.
- The gestation period is short and deadly.
- He is one of the seven deadly aspects of The Voice.
- Impassible mountains make deadly traps for the unwary.
- All of the Deadly Sins are notable in their selfishness.
- The officers specifically avoided the use of deadly force.
- Deadly force may never be used in the recovery of chattels.
- Eleven of the cases were the deadly inhalation type of anthrax.
- An angel points to the plague spot, the attribute of the deadly disease.
- You see, Thelma Lou, this is what we call the deadly game (INAUDIBLE) apes.
- Unfortunately, due the nature of the villages, the rivalry is deadly and fatal.
- Quentin Forbes was slowly returning his pen to his pocket, his eyes following Wolmar, his expression deadly.
- If it was not such a deadly climate, you would find much to interest you in these parts; but it is _very deadly_.
- BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: A scathing report details what it calls deadly deficiencies at Children's Hospital in Boston.
- The United States led the world now to agreeing to phase out what we call the deadly dozen, the 12 worst chemicals that wash off the land into the sea and kill fish.
- The Pentagon says that most of the battle deaths they've suffered now are from what they call deadly deceptions, in which fanatical Iraqi fighters are posing either as civilians or pretending to surrender.
- As she watched him reading, his face pale, his expression deadly serious, as he seemed to be fiercely concentrating, she guessed that he was going over those parts of the letter that seemed to suggest she was needed by her mother in Enniscorthy.