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grimly

[grim-lee] / ˈgrɪm li /
ADVERB
harshly
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It’s an agonizing loss that’s getting grimly compared with Atlanta’s 28-3 Super Bowl collapse to the Patriots.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

Its resilient population is grimly united behind the war effort.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026

LosGothsCo held its Gothicumbia homecoming party on Aug. 15 at the Regent in downtown L.A., where a grimly fiendish procession of DJs spinning the sounds of cumbia, new Latin alternative, post-punk and rock en español.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 28, 2025

By 1929 Vincent Sheean, an American journalist, was describing Jerusalem in a way that is grimly familiar to reporters there almost a century later.

From BBC • Jun. 8, 2025

“It will be growing cold soon,” said Werfel grimly.

From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin




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