destructively

Adverb

1. in a destructive manner: in a way that causes destruction
   • In one locality, on our journey, we saw some horses that had been born and reared on top of the mountains, above the range of running water, and consequently they had never drank that fluid in their lives, but had been...
   • The strength of man was not given to be used destructively but that he might build a temple worthy to be the dwelling place of the Great Architect of the universe. - 1923, Manly Palmer Hall, The Lost Keys of...
   • Though he intends it destructively, Rothbard is right that there are relations between the millennial hope for justice he archly calls KGE—Kingdom of God on Earth—and communism. - 2022, China Miéville, chapter 6, in A...