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gruesome
[ groo-suhm ]
adjective
- causing great horror; horribly repugnant; grisly:
the site of a gruesome murder.
- full of or causing problems; distressing:
a gruesome day at the office.
gruesome
/ ˈɡːə /
adjective
- inspiring repugnance and horror; ghastly
Derived Forms
- ˈܱdzԱ, noun
- ˈܱdz, adverb
Other Word Forms
- ܱsdz· adverb
- ܱsdz·Ա noun
- ܲ·ܱsdz adjective
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of gruesome1
Example Sentences
Disturbingly, two books were covered in his skin and part of the man's scalp, with ear included, was kept as a gruesome ornament.
Joel’s death is a gruesome finale for a good man cut down by a rage he didn’t realize he sowed with his extreme violence.
The film has a very distinct tone, from its 1970s European style imagery to fantasy sequences to some painfully funny and gruesome episodes of horror.
While “Warfare” certainly doesn’t make combat look like anything more than gruesome violence, its last few minutes undercut the anti-war messaging and Garland and Mendoza’s apolitical stance.
In 1983 Vargas Llosa was appointed president of a commission investigating the gruesome killing in a village in the Peruvian Andes of eight journalists, which became known as the Uchuraccay massacre.
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