grisly
adjective
causing a shudder or feeling of horror; horrible; gruesome.
grisliness
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a word derived from
grisly.
Example Sentences
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Pratt found solace in his own creative artwork every evening, she explained, a counterbalance to the grisliness he confronted all day.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 29, 2026
What grisliness awaits if anyone could know if you were telling the truth just by looking at you?
From Washington Post ● Nov. 15, 2021
As prestige-seeking television has gotten increasingly grisly and lurid, it has also become ever more dedicated to exploring the painful psychological ramifications of all that grisliness.
From Slate ● Oct. 2, 2014
That may delight the sort of people who regularly peruse Fangoria magazine, but it presents a conundrum to those trying to sell the grisliness to the masses.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2014
But all the horrors for which we had come were there in perfect grisliness, and labeled by the ingenious Signor P—— with Latin inscriptions.
From Italian Journeys by William Dean Howells
