grewsome

American  

[groo-suhm] / ˈgru səm /

adjective

1. gruesome.

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grewsome British  

/ ˈɡruːsəm /

adjective

1. an archaic or US spelling of gruesome

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Other Word Forms

• grewsomely adverb
• grewsomeness noun

Example Sentences

The battening of this horde soon reduced Southern finances and credit to a grewsome skeleton.

From A Speckled Bird by Wilson, Augusta J. Evans

This grewsome story is the one used by Meyerbeer in his opera of "Le Proph�te."

From A Short History of Germany by Parmele, Mary Platt

The issues of the war were so clear-cut, their ethical significance so momentous, that an American Gillray, a Unionist Gillray, would have found material for a series of cartoons of eloquent and grewsome power.

From The History of the Nineteenth Century in Caricature by Cooper, Frederic Taber

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 did, indeed, go by the name of “Robinson’s Haunted House”; but in the late afternoon sunlight none of the visitors thought of the grewsome stories told of it.

From The Girls of Central High Rivals for All Honors by Morrison, Gertrude W.