In a manner characterized by consumption; in a way that uses up or wastes away progressively.
From consumptive + -ly (adverb-forming suffix). Converts the adjective into an adverb describing how something happens.
Adding -ly to consumptive creates a way to describe progressive wasting—how tuberculosis 'consumptively' destroyed the body over months or years.
As above: adverbial form carries the feminized, medicalized aesthetic baggage of 'consumptive.'
Use when describing resource usage or disease progression with clinical precision. Avoid metaphorical use to describe persons as fragile or aestheticized.
["progressively","wasting","resource-intensively"]
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