grislily

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

grisly +‎ -ly

Adverb[edit]

grislily (comparative more grislily, superlative most grislily)

  1. In a grisly manner.
    • 1919, Ernest Newman, A Musical Motley, page 151:
      On the other hand no number of readings of Œdipus can diminish the horror of the dénouement; and at the fiftieth performance of Die Götterdämmerung our flesh creeps as grislily at the entrance of Siegfried in the guise of Gunther as it did at first.