Grossly
['ɡrosli]
Definition
(adv.) In a gross manner; greatly; coarsely; without delicacy; shamefully; disgracefully.
Editor: Melinda
Examples
- Language is always grossly inadequate. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Within the gates Lestrade met us, his face flushed with victory, his manner grossly triumphant. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- What we call the 'just possible' is sometimes true and the thing we find it easier to believe is grossly false. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Unless I am more considerate to ignorance, more forbearing to suffering, than I have hitherto been, I shall scorn myself as grossly unjust. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I liked it for a few moments, but she flattered me so very grossly that the pleasure was soon over. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- But what shall we think of a governor playing such pitiful tricks, and imposing so grossly upon a poor ignorant boy! Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- It was but the day before my arrival that one of them had been most grossly insulted in the house of a publican. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- What I saw struck me as tawdry, not grand; as grossly material, not poetically spiritual. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I have been grossly insulted in your eyes and in the eyes of others. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- His altered character had never been so grossly marked. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- You speak grossly. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- It was an infamous prosecution, grossly infamous; but not the less likely to succeed on that account. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
Editor: Melinda