Grisly
['grɪzlɪ] or ['grɪzli]
Definition
(a.) Frightful; horrible; dreadful; harsh; as, grisly locks; a grisly specter.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Frightful, horrible, horrid, terrific, hideous, appalling, dreadful, grim.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See GHASTLY]
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Definition
adj. frightful: hideous.—n. Gris′liness.
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Examples
- A grisly little fiction concerning her lovers is Lady Tippins's point. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- So little Tarzan wriggled out from beneath the struggling mass, clutching his grisly prize close to his breast. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- One would have had her look out and see this grisly sight. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- That hag Disappointment was greeting her with a grisly All-hail, and her soul rejected the intimacy. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- That strikes me in a more grisly light. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
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