gruesomely
adverb
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adv
Etymology: Etymology tree English gruesome Middle English -ly English -ly English gruesomely From gruesome + -ly.
- In a gruesome manner.
“The trailer for the documentary about killer Luka Magnotta doesn’t show anything graphic, but it contains clips of him handling kittens. The trailer goes on to explain that Magnotta gruesomely abuses these kittens.”
“Somewhere near the end of “Resurrection,” a sleek, hurtling, ridiculously entertaining horror movie from Andrew Semans, there’s a scene of such gruesomely bonkers intent that I actually gasped.”