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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Miami Herald, 28 May 2026
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The scene recalled the gruesome rampages of the RSF’s forebears, the janjaweed militias who terrorized Sudan’s Darfur region a generation ago.
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Miami Herald, 28 May 2026
The case has been widely reported by China’s heavily state censored media for the gruesome details of how Xu plotted the murder.
—Sylvie Zhuang, CNN Money, 28 May 2026
The actor, who has portrayed Nate Jacobs on the HBO series since Season 1, was killed off on the May 24 episode in one of TV's most gruesome deaths to date.
—Joelle Goldstein, USA Today, 25 May 2026
The scene recalled the gruesome rampages of the RSF’s forebears, the janjaweed militias who terrorized Sudan’s Darfur region a generation ago.
—Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 24 May 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 29 May. 2026.
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