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Example sentences for "grossly"

Lexicographically close words:
grossen; grosser; grosses; grossest; grossi; grossness; grot; grotesque; grotesquely; grotesqueness
  1. He was grossly incompetent, and just such men bring the legal profession into disrepute.

  2. This conclusion was grossly erroneous, and led to much profitless gossip.

  3. However the black brute continued his boisterous remarks and abusing the white race, and that he, a South Carolina representative had his dignity grossly insulted and that he was going to report the incident to General Grant on arrival.

  4. The system, if it deserve the name, of these men, is grossly irrational.

  5. The former of them is founded altogether on that grossly fallacious assumption, that a man's opinions will not influence his practice.

  6. Is it not grossly criminal to trifle with the long-suffering of God, to despise alike his invitations and his threatenings, and the offer of his Spirit of grace, and the precious blood of the Redeemer?

  7. The disguise was given to him in all innocence, and might have been successful, had not Lord Cochrane, on finding how grossly he had been deceived, volunteered to assist in punishing the culprit.

  8. The story about a protracted breach caused by the diversity of their sentiments concerning the revolution of 1688, if it have any foundation in fact, is grossly exaggerated in its details.

  9. They are said to be very drunken as well as grossly ignorant and superstitious, and the abuses and unutterable degradation of their church perpetuate all that is bad in the national character.

  10. They are grossly ignorant, and of the world which lies outside the sandjak in which they live they know nothing.

  11. Some are probably grossly exaggerated, others, and this among them, are probably true in all essential particulars.

  12. And grossly that man errs, who should suppose That the green valleys, and the streams and rocks Were things indifferent to the shepherd's thoughts.

  13. Some persons had discernment enough to doubt of this; for his breeding and deportment, though showy, had a tinge of vulgarity about it; he was grossly ungrammatical in his ordinary conversation.

  14. No people ever more grossly imposed upon themselves.

  15. Could he be feeling aught but regret that he had thrown away years of his life upon one who had betrayed him so grossly at the end?

  16. It is a grossly unforgivable affront as well--as many a tramp and thief have learned, at high cost.

  17. Glad was the unnerved Corporal Freund when his run ceased and he stood close to his grossly solid and rank-scented fellowmen once more.

  18. They confined all study of the classics to that of the most classical period, and grossly exaggerated the barbarity and barrenness of patriotic Greek or mediaeval Latin.

  19. Yes, and we might have had that glorious truth much sooner, if we had not grossly lapsed into sin, and so obscured heaven's light.

  20. Seeing that the Greek word is the same in every one of these passages, is it not very wrong to give it an improper and grossly exaggerated significance in three texts, while translating it correctly in forty-one other instances?

  21. Not only were they grossly insulted by word of mouth; they were spit upon, and railed at, kicked and assaulted; nothing seemed too harsh or vile for their captors to do in venting their spleen.

  22. Lopez to his chagrin found that reports which had reached him in the United States of the willingness of the Cubans to join a revolution had been grossly exaggerated.

  23. It is a principle which, we must own, though it may be grossly abused, can hardly be disputed in the present state of public law.

  24. It would be grossly unjust, we acknowledge, to try a man situated as Barère was by a severe standard.

  25. The account which Barère has given of these transactions is studiously confused and grossly dishonest.

  26. He was charmed by her tale, and preferred it to the novels of Fielding, to whom, indeed, he had always been grossly unjust.

  27. Forty-four numbers had been published when Bute resigned; and, though almost every number had contained matter grossly libellous, no prosecution had been instituted.

  28. All good judges of maritime affairs complained that, under this system, the ships were grossly mismanaged, and that the tarpaulins contracted the vices, without acquiring the graces, of the court.

  29. The whole Catholic world was again united under a single chief; and rules were laid down which seemed to make it improbable that the power of that chief would be grossly abused.

  30. How grossly that power was abused by Swift and by Voltaire is well known.

  31. But even these measures would be insufficient, unless the war, hitherto so grossly mismanaged, were placed under the direction of a vigorous mind.

  32. With the best intentions, she was often grossly unfair, and Erica, with a naturally quick temper, and her Raeburn inheritance of fluency and satire, found her patience sorely tried.

  33. In the expression of his religious opinions no man has been more frank or explicit, while no man's religious opinions have been more grossly misrepresented.

  34. Miriam, her eyes filling with tears of mingled grief and indignation; "I felt how grossly he misunderstood my emotion on hearing of the awful fate of the man who was my worst enemy, and whom I so thoroughly detested.

  35. Dennehy was grossly triumphant, and raged again when his late opponents plainly told him that his share in the victory was less than nothing.

  36. She would have given the world to be able to call it grossly unfair.

  37. The question submitted by the Sadducees on this occasion related directly to the resurrection, and was framed to discredit the doctrine by a most unfavorable and grossly exaggerated application thereof.

  38. There never would have been doubt anywhere about Taylor's successor," said the Call In its issue of November 5, "if it had not been for the grossly selfish and unpatriotic course of Daniel A.

  39. Whitfield never held or taught any such thing; nor was I so grossly ignorant of the life and character of that remarkable man as to impute to him a doctrine which he would have abhorred.

  40. It is lamentable to think how long after our power was firmly established in Bengal, we, grossly neglecting the first and plainest duty of the civil magistrate, suffered the practices of infanticide and Suttee to continue unchecked.

  41. I cannot believe that the House will pass a vote of censure so grossly unjust as that which he has moved.

  42. Therefore, it is the duty of Government to take care that the common people shall not be grossly ignorant.

  43. An editor who was not grossly ignorant would have perceived that no person to whom the House of Commons would listen could possibly have been guilty of such blunders.

  44. Yes, Sir, such hints have been given, hints that a sovereign who has merely executed the law, ought to be treated like a sovereign who grossly violated the law.

  45. Remember, too, that, though people who cannot write their own names must be grossly ignorant, people may write their own names and yet have very little knowledge.

  46. Here ensued a brisk series of questions and computations, by means of which it became evident that the antiquity of the Mummy had been grossly misjudged.

  47. I am by no means certain that the true limits of the critical duty are not grossly misunderstood.

  48. The English caricatures of this period relating to the new Emperor and Empress are as a rule not only libelous, but grossly coarse.

  49. A grossly distorted caricature of Victoria is standing before a map of the world, and dipping her pen in a cup of blood, held for her by an army officer.

  50. The statements of Collier and Halliwell are grossly exaggerated.

  51. It is often a premium on indolence and a punishment of industry, and therefore grossly unjust.

  52. Still, England will have no excuse for being so grossly deceived, for these men have at one time or other been pretty candid.


  53. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "grossly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    atrociously; awfully; dreadfully; excessively; extravagantly; flagrantly; grossly; horribly; horridly; improperly; infamously; inordinately; meanly; miserably; monstrously; outrageously; poorly; roughly; terribly; unduly; unseemly