adverb
- In a hideous manner.
- usage: "her face was hideously disfigured after the accident"
- In a terribly evil manner.
- usage: "the child was heinously murdered"
- synonyms: heinously
- In a grotesque manner.
- usage: "behind the house lay two nude figures grotesquely bald, with deliberate knife-slashes marking their bodies"
- synonyms: grotesquely
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