assaultively
English
Etymology
assaultive + -ly
Adverb
assaultively (comparative more assaultively, superlative most assaultively)
- In an assaultive manner.
- 1977, Albert Ellis, Anger: How to Live With and Without It, Secaucus, NJ: Citadel Press, 1997, Chapter 12, p. 211,
- […] if we can train “naturally” antagonistic animals, such as dogs and cats or cats and mice, to live together peacefully—which we definitely can—we can also encourage “naturally” antagonistic humans to behave much less assaultively.
- 2006, Deborah Eisenberg, “Some Other, Better Otto” in Twilight of the Superheroes, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, p. 53,
- Driving back to the city, through the assaultively scenic and demographically uniform little towns, they were silent.
- 1977, Albert Ellis, Anger: How to Live With and Without It, Secaucus, NJ: Citadel Press, 1997, Chapter 12, p. 211,