grisly
1- causing a shudder or feeling of horror; horrible; gruesome: a grisly murder.
- formidable; grim: a grisly countenance.
Origin of grisly
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2Related Words for grisly
sickening, terrifying, dreadful, horrid, eerie, macabre, terrible, bloody, frightful, ghastly, abominable, horrible, awful, gruesome, shocking, appalling, hideous, grim, lurid, disgustingExamples from the Web for grisly
Contemporary Examples of grisly
He admitted responsibility without hesitation, and in meticulous, grisly detail.
These grisly images drew a huge audience, and allowed that audience to indulge in righteous indignation.
In the wake of such a grisly screw up, it is tempting to play the blame game.
The grisly footage obtained by BFMTV shows the French-speaking fighters arriving at a scene splayed with bodies.
Christine Pelisek talks to the man examining the grisly finds.
Historical Examples of grisly
Swift on her part she paid him back with grisly grasp, and grappled with him.
BeowulfAnonymous
So it might be, indeed, in a country where they were so plentiful, but it was not a grisly this time.
Two ArrowsWilliam O. Stoddard
He had not been "treed," he had been bowldered, and the grisly had been arrowed and lanced thoroughly.
Two ArrowsWilliam O. Stoddard
If he should slip there would be an end of it, for the grisly was close up now.
Two ArrowsWilliam O. Stoddard
A grunt, a growl, a great lift, and the grisly was off the ground.
Two ArrowsWilliam O. Stoddard
grisly
1- causing horror or dread; gruesome
Word Origin for grisly
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grisly
2- obsolete a variant spelling of grizzly
Word Origin and History for grisly
Old English grislic "horrible, dreadful," from root of grisan "to shudder, fear" (cf. Old Frisian grislik "horrible," Middle Dutch grisen "to shudder," Dutch griezelen, German grausen "to shudder, fear," Old High German grisenlik "horrible"), of unknown origin; Watkins connects it with the PIE root *ghrei- "to rub," on notion of "to grate on the mind." Cf. also gruesome, to which it probably is connected in some way.