0 in a way that is very unpleasant and shocking:
People used to flock to Canterbury Cathedral because St Thomas a Becket had been gruesomely killed there.
I was convinced that this plane was going to crash, that we were all going to die, gruesomely.
It is obvious that we have a gruesomely tight fiscal stance.
Without a compromise on a peaceful solution, the future looks gruesomely violent.
It has become even more fiercely competitive over the past 20 years or so and some areas are almost gruesomely competitive—food retailing, for example.
The executioners were gruesomely soiled with blood, brain matter, and bone splinters.
Villages were also burned and lives lost gruesomely.