grewsome
Americanadjective
adjective
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It is grewsome in fact, and horrible; but it is also strong and intense and vital.
From Women of Achievement Written for the Fireside Schools by Brawley, Benjamin Griffith
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
The battening of this horde soon reduced Southern finances and credit to a grewsome skeleton.
From A Speckled Bird by Wilson, Augusta J. Evans
I took the feet of the grewsome burden, the Skipper carrying the head.
From Latitude 19 degree A Romance of the West Indies in the Year of Our Lord Eighteen Hundred and Twenty by Crowninshield, Mrs. Schuyler
There had been a bunch of faded flowers upon the mound; he restored these and with a sigh of relief shouldered his spade and auger and took his departure, glad to leave the grewsome spot.
From Sons and Fathers by Edwards, Harry Stillwell
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