gruesomely

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A scenario that gruesomely echoes The Handmaid's Tale.

From Salon • May 3, 2024

And it isn’t always clear what you’re seeing: A C-section is gruesomely self-explanatory; the burnt-looking layers of a just-removed tumor, not so much.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 27, 2023

By the fall of 1942, German troops had actually broken into Stalingrad, but their progress thereafter was gruesomely slow and difficult.

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

If you're young enough not to remember that time there were months of widespread walkouts bringing misery in freezing temperatures, rubbish in the streets and gruesomely, even a gravediggers' strike.

From BBC • Nov. 26, 2022

She hadn’t moved, but the shadows across her face made it look like she was smiling gruesomely.

From "The Titan's Curse" by Rick Riordan