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gruesomely

ADVERB
morbidly
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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

The trees of the Black Forest, though, were gruesomely dead, each and every one of them.

From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley




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