grislily
English
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editgrislily (comparative more grislily, superlative most grislily)
- 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.