gruesome
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appalling, atrocious, awful, dreadful, frightful, ghastly, grisly, hideous, horrendous, horrible, horrid, horrific, horrifying, lurid, macabre, monstrous, nightmare, nightmarish, shocking, terrible, terrific
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Sanitation workers opened the container at Thursday's unveiling to show reporters the gruesome -- but apparently effective -- results: a bucket filled with lifeless rodents. — Rob Picheta, CNN, "New York plans to deal with its rat problem by drowning them in booze," 6 Sep. 2019 The stories are whimsical, but also sometimes gruesome—people making sausage out of humans, detailed descriptions of corpses, that sort of thing. — Julie Beck, The Atlantic, "Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark," 23 Aug. 2019 There’s no such danger in the movie, which offers some of the stories’ more gruesome elements but, by framing them skillfully, moralizes their fabrications by undergirding them with (fictitious) facts. — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, "The Mild Horror of “Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark”," 12 Aug. 2019 Recent years have seen a glut of articles and trend pieces proclaiming it a golden age for documentaries revisiting gruesome cold cases. — Adam Benzine, The Hollywood Reporter, "Emmys: Have Voters Fallen Off the True-Crime Doc Wagon?," 8 Aug. 2019 In a gruesome, yet fascinating, photo that the Everglades National Park published on Twitter on Monday afternoon, a crocodile is seen chewing on the leg of his deceased former rival. — Tiffini Theisen, orlandosentinel.com, "Photo shows crocodile eating leg of romantic rival after killing him in Florida Everglades," 5 Aug. 2019 Since then, Hollywood and the entertainment industry have been in constant competition to imagine the most gruesome way of killing off Trump — stabbing, blowing up, burning, shooting, suffocating, decapitating or beating. — Victor Davis Hanson, The Mercury News, "Hanson: Menacing invective against Trump creates scary climate," 1 Aug. 2019 Since then, Hollywood and the entertainment industry have been in constant competition to imagine the most gruesome way of killing off Trump: stabbing, blowing up, burning, shooting, suffocating, decapitating, or beating. — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, "The Dangerous Invective against Trump," 1 Aug. 2019 The deputy then found a far more gruesome discovery: Peggy. — NBC News, "No arrests two years after Virginia murder of Ohio mother Peggy Lammers," 26 July 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'gruesome.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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