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grimly

[ grim-lee ]

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adverb

in a stern, sinister, fierce, or forbidding way:
The mood has turned bleak here as the populace prepares grimly for a period of prolonged hardship and, they fear, war.
For many years, art was forbidden in the country unless it was grimly, dully figurative or a gaudy mural glorifying the dictator’s regime.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of grimly¹

First recorded before 1000; grim ( def ) + -ly ( def )

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As one of the good guys grimly puts it, mounting a rebellion means resigning oneself to accepting loss after loss after loss until you finally pull out a victory.

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As horrible as this is to witness, the situation also grimly verges on parody.

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Adra hopes in vain that the mainstream media will report on these indignities, then has a visiting journalist talk grimly about once doing such a piece: People “paid attention to that for 10 minutes.”

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The election result on Nov. 5 — just about 100 days after Harris’ overnight transformation — left Smith feeling sadly, grimly vindicated.

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All three films offer a grimly transporting experience to a distant time and place, with an emotional and social immediacy that resonates deeply in the present.

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