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grim·ly
 grimly
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- pronunciation:
- grIm
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adverb |
| definition: |
in a grim manner; firmly and cheerlessly, and without giving rise to hope of a change of mind or change of fate.
Asked if the disease was fatal, the doctor nodded grimly.Their father answered grimly that war, in fact, had begun. |
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