- a variation of gruesome.
grewsome
Americanadjective
adjective
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He started at the grewsome heap on the floor as if he had just now chanced to cast eye upon it.
From The Gray Phantom's Return by Landon, Herman
So I moved to the left, my gallery curving slightly there, and, looking fixedly at them in the failing light, I comprehended what this grewsome sight meant.
From Latitude 19 degree A Romance of the West Indies in the Year of Our Lord Eighteen Hundred and Twenty by Crowninshield, Mrs. Schuyler
It was memories mingling with the grewsome reality.
From The Golden Triangle The Return of Ars?ne Lupin by Leblanc, Maurice
To many older persons the Tansy is therefore so associated with grewsome sights and sad scenes, that they turn from it wherever seen, and its scent to them is unbearable.
From Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth by Earle, Alice Morse
The few details in the newspaper report gave vividness to the grewsome scene.
From The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia by Cahan, Abraham
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