Gruesomely [adverb]

No one, however, reported the disturbance, though each had been gruesomely affected.

“About Willowfield,” he answered, holding her hand and laughing a little gruesomely.

This cheerfulness is somewhat gruesomely voiced in a cartoon in Punch touching on the allowance given to the soldier's wife.

The sixth was unlocked, but the passengers—a man and a woman—were very evidently and very gruesomely dead.

The huge body-shells cracked gruesomely as we struck with our solid fists.

Perspiration was streaming from them, making their faces shine gruesomely.

They found only his left hand plastered gruesomely against the grassy bank of the railway cut—not a hair nor button else.

The Ermetyne, dangling loosely over Quillan's left shoulder, looked fairly gruesomely dead.

Again his voice faltered and his aspect became still more gruesomely malevolent as of a wicked and pitiless corpse.

For a time she saw no one, and commenced to fear that the whole thing had been a gruesomely real, practical jest.