Grimly

Quick meaning: Grimly is an adjective meaning (now rare) Grim-looking, grim-natured.

Meaning

(now rare) Grim-looking, grim-natured.

More Meanings

1. In a grim manner.

Example Sentences

He looked round and shouted grimly, "As soon as the gate is opened, you go out there - running."

I looked out my window / The cloud was grimly forming / Waiting for the rain I saw / The one dark cloud forming

In reality it was the most terrifying sight I had seen to date: two fried eggs decorated with ketchup, Tabasco and chopped chillis in the semblance of a pair of bloodshot eyes – I would as soon have eaten my own leg. I waved the grimly thing away.

To hear her rant, one would have supposed, who had not seen him, that her lank-haired, grimly partner, was the prettiest youth in the county of Dublin, and that all the comely lasses in Chapelizod and the country round were sighing and setting caps at him […]

Word Forms

• grimlier
• grimliest

Synonyms for grimly

Depending on context, synonyms include grisly.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include bleakly, dourly, somberly, gloomily, sternly, harshly.

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