grievously

adverb

griev·​ous·​ly

: in a grievous manner or to a grievous degree : flagrantly, seriously

the prison population has grievously increased in the last fifteen years

—Times Literary Supplement

Word History

Etymology

Middle English grevously, from grevous + -ly

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