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Recent Examples of grossly
Day in, day out, for a grossly underpaid starting salary of $34,400 per year.
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Chicago Tribune, 27 Mar. 2026
Safety measures were grossly inadequate.
—Christina Ray Stanton, New York Daily News, 25 Mar. 2026
So, to be clear, that 14 billion number is grossly overstated.
—NBC news, 22 Mar. 2026
And the protests were about how grossly the country was being mismanaged, but also that a majority of Lebanese people, across all sectarian groups, were fed up.
—Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2026
Williams was arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon and grossly negligent discharge of a firearm, police said.
—Dean Fioresi, CBS News, 16 Mar. 2026
On Monday, the Santa Monica Police Department announced that officers had arrested Jaysawn Williams, 18, of Rialto, who was booked on suspicion of assault with a firearm and grossly negligent discharge of a firearm.
—Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2026
Williams was booked on suspicion of assault with a firearm and grossly negligent discharge of a firearm.
—City News Service, Daily News, 16 Mar. 2026
That assumption is grossly inaccurate.
—Robert Pearl, Twin Cities, 8 Mar. 2026
Chicago Tribune, 27 Mar. 2026
Safety measures were grossly inadequate.
—Christina Ray Stanton, New York Daily News, 25 Mar. 2026
So, to be clear, that 14 billion number is grossly overstated.
—NBC news, 22 Mar. 2026
And the protests were about how grossly the country was being mismanaged, but also that a majority of Lebanese people, across all sectarian groups, were fed up.
—Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2026
Williams was arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon and grossly negligent discharge of a firearm, police said.
—Dean Fioresi, CBS News, 16 Mar. 2026
On Monday, the Santa Monica Police Department announced that officers had arrested Jaysawn Williams, 18, of Rialto, who was booked on suspicion of assault with a firearm and grossly negligent discharge of a firearm.
—Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2026
Williams was booked on suspicion of assault with a firearm and grossly negligent discharge of a firearm.
—City News Service, Daily News, 16 Mar. 2026
That assumption is grossly inaccurate.
—Robert Pearl, Twin Cities, 8 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for grossly
Adverb
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Never has the United States had a secretary of defense less capable, more egregiously belligerent, or less suited to provide civilian direction of a war than Pete Hegseth.—
Eliot A. Cohen,
The Atlantic,
1 Apr. 2026
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Owner Bruce Sherman continues egregiously cheap.—
Greg Cote
Updated March 27,
Miami Herald,
28 Mar. 2026
Adverb
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Jonathan Haidt, in his career as a wide-ranging social psychologist, has been flagrantly right about at least one big thing.—
David Remnick,
New Yorker,
13 Mar. 2026
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This has become a flagrantly abusive practice.—
Kate Callen,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
30 Jan. 2026
Adverb
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And finally… The death of seven PAOK supporters in a road accident last week was an unspeakably awful tragedy, and one that will hang over the club for a long time.—
Phil Hay,
New York Times,
2 Feb. 2026
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But tackling the Navier-Stokes equations for fluids in three dimensions is unspeakably difficult, so mathematicians have started with easier versions of the problem.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
9 Jan. 2026
Adverb
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If that were true, record numbers of small owners wouldn’t be staring down foreclosure and bankruptcy due to past rent freezes and years of miniscule rent adjustments that failed miserably to address across-the-board increases in building operating costs and expenses.—
Ann Korchak,
New York Daily News,
23 Mar. 2026
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Her strategy failed miserably as lawmakers refused to give in to her demands.—
Joe Battenfeld,
Boston Herald,
21 Feb. 2026
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“Grossly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grossly. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.
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