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grimly

grim·ly

grimly

 
pronunciation:
grIm li
part of speech: 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.