grisly English

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grisly

— adjective (= ghastly, grim, gruesome, macabre) shockingly repellent; inspiring horror ghastly wounds the grim aftermath of the bombing the grim task of burying the victims a grisly murder gruesome evidence of human sacrifice macabre tales of war and plague in the Middle ages macabre tortures conceived by madmen

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ghastly

horrible

gruesome

nasty

macabre

dreary

dismal

bleak

terrible

horrific

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hideous

grim

dreadful

awful

tremblingly

quakingly

frightful

atrocious

terrifying

sick

outrageous

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god-awful

fearsome

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dreaded

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abominable

unspeakable

ugly

tremendous

shuddery

shocking

scary

revolting

repulsive

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redoubtable

raging

morbid

monstrous

heinous

gruesomely

grotesque

gory

godawful

ghoulish