grewsome
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- grewsomely adverb
- grewsomeness noun
Example Sentences
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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
It was a story full of grewsome romance, this tale of the unheralded coming of two monsters among a simple, honest, scattered, yet neighborly, woods-people.
From Oldfield A Kentucky Tale of the Last Century by Banks, Nancy Huston
It was a grewsome experience and my first of the kind.
From The History of Company A, Second Illinois Cavalry by Fletcher, Samuel H.
It was nearly midnight when he got up from his place beside the whitening embers of the camp-fire and pulled himself together for the grewsome task.
From Stranded in Arcady by Lynde, Francis
The grewsome growth of barberry bushes near Mowry’s Tavern was the scene of the first serious crime of the settlement of Providence Plantations.
From Stage-coach and Tavern Days by Earle, Alice Morse
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