gloomily

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1. In a gloomy manner.

   Frowning heads are still gloomily shaken when the subject is raised on the NER, [...].

   1964 September, G. Freeman Allen, “Interim report on the East Coast Route express service”, in Modern Railways, page 160

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   [T]he sedate monk's hood lifted its head still higher and looked gloomily and wickedly down on it, while it nodded and kept time to the cuckoo's song, as if it were counting how many days it had to live.

   1886, Peter Christen Asbjø￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 280

   He was gloomily informative on points of law, of which the storehouse of his mind appeared to be well supplied.

   1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 125