Grislily
adv
adv ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adverb
- 1 In a grisly manner.
"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."
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From grisly + -ly.
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