gruesome
adjective
causing great horror; horribly repugnant; grisly.
gruesomely
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a word derived from
gruesome.
Example Sentences
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Ms. Borgman doesn’t—and likely wouldn’t—make use of the recently released, gruesomely detailed autopsy reports on the killings, documentation that was probably unavailable during production anyway.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
A scenario that gruesomely echoes The Handmaid's Tale.
From Salon ● May 3, 2024
By the fall of 1942, German troops had actually broken into Stalingrad, but their progress thereafter was gruesomely slow and difficult.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022
If you're young enough not to remember that time there were months of widespread walkouts bringing misery in freezing temperatures, rubbish in the streets and gruesomely, even a gravediggers' strike.
From BBC ● Nov. 26, 2022
She hadn’t moved, but the shadows across her face made it look like she was smiling gruesomely.
From "The Titan's Curse" by Rick Riordan
