(Old English grimme) or quasi-adv. In a grim manner or mood; fiercely, savagely, horribly. In later use only to look grim, where grim is perhaps…

In a stern manner (see the senses of the adjective); with sternness of temper, aspect, utterance, etc.; severely, harshly, unbendingly; †fiercely…

in the various senses: Splendidly, brilliantly, clearly; loudly; fiercely.

In a bitter manner; with bitterness. (See the senses of bitter, adj.)

Variant of ateliche, adv. Obsolete, grievously, cruelly.

Roughly, fiercely, violently, cruelly, severely, sternly, keenly, eagerly.

In a ‘felon’ manner, wickedly; fiercely, bitterly, cruelly, severely, also in weaker sense, grievously.

Roughly, harshly; fiercely, bitterly.

In a fell manner; cruelly, fiercely, harshly; eagerly, vigorously. Obsolete.

Cruelly, fiercely, harshly. archaic in later use.

cruelly.

Modifying a verb. In the manner of a beast or animal; (also) brutishly, brutally, bestially. Obsolete.

Unkindly, uncivilly; cruelly, inhumanely. Obsolete.

Fiercely, feloniously.

Fiercely, savagely. Obsolete.

In an inhuman manner; barbarously, cruelly.

In an unkind manner.

(Formerly often confused with boorishly.)

In a savage manner; cruelly, barbarously, fiercely.

In a tigerish manner.

(un-, prefix1 affix 5.)

= inhumanly, adv.

†(a) = inhumanly, adv. (obsolete); (b) Not humanely, without compassion for suffering (but not with active cruelty).

cruelly, brutally.

In a savage manner; barbarously.

In a beastly way or manner. Cf. beastly, adv., beastily, adv.

quasi-adv.

In a truculent manner; savagely.

In a brutal manner.