gruesomely

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A scenario that gruesomely echoes The Handmaid's Tale.

From Salon • May 3, 2024

Swirling with anguish and argument, tempered by practicality, it airs an often taboo topic with the authority of someone writing what he knows — all too gruesomely well.

From New York Times • Mar. 26, 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