grewsome

[ groo-suhm ]

adjective

Other words from grewsome

  • grew·some·ly, adverb
  • grew·some·ness, noun

Words Nearby grewsome

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How to use grewsome in a sentence

  • Whether it was too grewsome for their taste or whether there was some other reason, Gibbs tried hard to find out.

    In the Onyx Lobby | Carolyn Wells
  • Above the entrance—grewsome and realistic spectacle—is poor St. Lawrence broiling away on his stone gridiron!

    Italian Days and Ways | Anne Hollingsworth Wharton
  • And various grewsome objects, a card case of human skin, and the twisted scarf used by a strangler.

    Through the Wall | Cleveland Moffett
  • From time to time they caught the grewsome head by the hair and shook it violently, shouting, Who-oo-oo!

  • The narrator had heard this grewsome tale from his grandmother, who said that she had seen the hole.

British Dictionary definitions for grewsome

grewsome

/ (ˈɡruːsəm) /


adjective
  1. an archaic or US spelling of gruesome

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