grimly
pronunciation
How to pronounce grimly in British English:
UK [ɡrɪmlɪ]
How to pronounce grimly in American English:
US [ˈɡrɪmlɪ]
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- Adverb:
- in a grim implacable manner
Word Origin
- grimly (adv.)
- Old English grimlice; see grim (adj.) + -ly (2). Similar formation in Middle Dutch grimmelijc, Old Norse grimmligr.
Example
- 1. Others more grimly said they saw bodies in the streets that they could not retrieve .
- 2. Mr osborne talked grimly of the injustice of burdening future generations with debt , and said he would bring britain " back from the brink " .
- 3. I have exercised like this - obsessively , a bit grimly - for years , but recently I began to wonder : why am I doing this ?
- 4. He argued that any technology capable of shifting the orbit of an asteroid could potentially be turned into a weapon , and he grimly predicted that the danger from man-made impacts would then grossly outweigh that from natural ones .
- 5. I am grimly focused on what I 'm doing .