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[ adverb ] in a grim implacable manner
Examples "he was grimly satisfied" Used in print (Ann Hebson, The Lattimer Legend....)Jonathan wrote grimly of the destruction of Harpers_Ferry before they abandoned it ; of their first engagement at Falling_Waters after Old_Jack 's First_Brigade had destroyed all the rolling_stock of the B_+_O_Railroad . (Bruce Palmer, "My Brother's Keeper", Many Are...)He was grimly satisfied . (Frieda Arkin, "The Light of the Sea," in The...)And the stiffly regal look of them , she saw grimly , lacked the quaver of age which , thwarting the efforts of her amazing will , ran through her spoken_words like a thin ragged string . (James Thurber, "The Future, If Any, of Comedy,"...)Moreland asked , grimly . |
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