variants
or less commonly grewsome
: inspiring horror or repulsion : grisly
gruesome stories of wounded comrades
gruesomely
adverb
gruesomeness
noun
Examples of gruesome in a Sentence
The police report described the scene in gruesome detail.
didn't stick around to hear the gruesome details of the car accident
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Kernodle likely ran back downstairs to her bedroom after witnessing the gruesome scene, followed by Kohberger.
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Chris Spargo, PEOPLE, 29 Jan. 2026
Background characters have gruesome war wounds or shell shock, and postwar Liverpool has been bombed back to Victorian levels of deprivation.
—Christopher Tayler, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
The desk Obama used alongside his chambers chairs met a gruesome end when it, along with other desks in the Senate, was destroyed after remodeling in late 2006.
—Jack O'Connor, Chicago Tribune, 24 Jan. 2026
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Chris Spargo, PEOPLE, 29 Jan. 2026
Background characters have gruesome war wounds or shell shock, and postwar Liverpool has been bombed back to Victorian levels of deprivation.
—Christopher Tayler, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
The desk Obama used alongside his chambers chairs met a gruesome end when it, along with other desks in the Senate, was destroyed after remodeling in late 2006.
—Jack O'Connor, Chicago Tribune, 24 Jan. 2026
Instead of picturing that exercise as long and gruesome, try breaking it up.
—Avery Newmark, AJC.com, 23 Jan. 2026
See All Example Sentences for gruesome
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“Gruesome.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gruesome. Accessed 2 Feb. 2026.
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