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gruesomely

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grue·some  (grsm)
adj.
Causing horror and repugnance; frightful and shocking: a gruesome murder. See Synonyms at ghastly.
[Obsolete grue, to shudder (from Middle English gruen, from Middle Dutch grwen or Middle Low German gruwen) + -some.]
gruesome·ly adv.
gruesome·ness n.
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Adv.1.gruesomely - in a gruesome manner; "he was gruesomely wounded"
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gruesomely [ˈgruːsəmli] adv (= horribly) → d'une manière horrible
gruesomely
adv (+vb) → auf grausame Weise; (+adj) → grausam, schauerlich


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She always, indeed, struck Newland Archer as having been rather gruesomely preserved in the airless atmosphere of a perfectly irreproachable existence, as bodies caught in glaciers keep for years a rosy life-in-death.
The Age of Innocence by Wharton, Edith View in context
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