Grimness
['grimnis]
Definition
(n.) Fierceness of look; sternness; crabbedness; forbiddingness.
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Examples
- I don't think you would have cared for its DENOUEMENT, he said with sudden grimness. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- I had heard this woman termed plain, and I expected bony harshness and grimness--something large, angular, sallow. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Miss Mann's goblin grimness scarcely went deeper than the angel sweetness of hundreds of beauties. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
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