variants
or less commonly grewsome
: inspiring horror or repulsion : grisly
gruesome stories of wounded comrades
gruesomely
adverb
gruesomeness
noun
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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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Friday’s 102-86 setback in Brooklyn - marked by a gruesome fourth quarter in which Miami was outscored 31-9 – left the Heat at 25-25.
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Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 8 Feb. 2025
Osgood Perkins is back in his horror bag to bring the short story from Stephen King to the big screen, following twin brothers Bill and Hal, who find their father's old toy monkey in the attic, an event which leads to a series of gruesome deaths.
—Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Newsweek, 4 Feb. 2025
Bores wrote in his 1590 chapbook a year later that Stumpp’s head was also severed from his body and placed upon a stake, providing a gruesome warning to the community.
—Sean Neumann, People.com, 1 Feb. 2025
Add to that a gruesome basement room overflowing with stinking sewage.
—Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 Jan. 2025
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Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 8 Feb. 2025
Osgood Perkins is back in his horror bag to bring the short story from Stephen King to the big screen, following twin brothers Bill and Hal, who find their father's old toy monkey in the attic, an event which leads to a series of gruesome deaths.
—Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Newsweek, 4 Feb. 2025
Bores wrote in his 1590 chapbook a year later that Stumpp’s head was also severed from his body and placed upon a stake, providing a gruesome warning to the community.
—Sean Neumann, People.com, 1 Feb. 2025
Add to that a gruesome basement room overflowing with stinking sewage.
—Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 Jan. 2025
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“Gruesome.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gruesome. Accessed 12 Feb. 2025.
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