Meaning & use

disruptively

adverb·Academic

In a way that causes disorder or interrupts a normal process or system.

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He behaved so disruptively in class that he was sent to the office.

The new app disruptively changed how people booked short-term rentals.

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Disruptively is the adverb form of disruptive and is used far less often than the adjective.

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