grewsome
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- grewsomely adverb
- grewsomeness noun
Example Sentences
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The battening of this horde soon reduced Southern finances and credit to a grewsome skeleton.
From A Speckled Bird by Wilson, Augusta J. Evans
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
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
That he had come upon some grewsome mystery was apparent.
From The Girl From Tim's Place by Munn, Charles Clark
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
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