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gruesomegrue‧some /ˈɡruːsəm/ ●○○ adjective gruesomeOrigin: 1500-1600 grue ‘to shake (with fear)’ (14-19 centuries), from Middle Dutch gruwen - But sitting through nearly 111 minutes of bloody crime scenes, test-tube shots and gruesome autopsy scenes is just unpleasant and boring.
- Earlier in the day, they found more gruesome debris.
- He begins his career as a boy with gruesome, bloody experiments on live animals.
- He even remembered the gruesome details of the spelling bee he lost in front of the entire seventh grade.
- I'd turn from gruesome Gilly into gorgeous, gracious, good, glorious Galadriel.
- It wants us to live out that gruesome fantasy, to find out whether we could handle it.
- The antique woodcuts, etchings, and contemporary photographs that illustrate the book are at once gruesome and riveting.
very unpleasant or shocking, and involving someone being killed or badly injured: Police described it as a particularly gruesome attack. Spare me the gruesome details.—gruesomely adverb |