grim

It’s witty, but not grim; accurate but also imaginative.

From Salon ● Nov. 1, 2026

But in a grim moment last year, he realized he was several thousand dollars short of the roughly $28,000-annual minimum to qualify for healthcare through actors union SAG-AFTRA.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

This question has been asked so many times now - and it's grim that it still has to be asked.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

Still, the overall picture is grim for Iran’s economy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

It was a grim prospect for the Catholic Church, especially since it was beginning to have trouble with its subjects on even its own world.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

Reports David has heard from clients in Cameroon are even grimmer: the IOM has refused to facilitate medical care for some detainees, the lawyer said.

From Barron's ● Jul. 7, 2026

Each morning that Venezuelans wake to the aftermath of the dual earthquakes, it is a little darker, a little grimmer.

From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026

That’s a turnaround from their much grimmer forecasts last fall.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 20, 2026

She’s hardly in a position to do much more than accept what’s going on as a grimmer version of her own dead-end predicament.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2026

A little of the official atmosphere seemed to have fallen away from him with the Newspeak words, but his expression was grimmer than usual, as though he were not pleased at being disturbed.

From "1984" by George Orwell

He volunteered at the very start and has survived some of the grimmest battles.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026

The grimmest possibility for the filmmaking community is that Warner would become a production label under Paramount, like the former 20th Century Fox studio has become at Disney.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2025

It’s a showdown on the edge of an abyss or, from a blackly comic point of view, the grimmest edition ever of that old surprise-reunion show “This Is Your Life.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2025

Behind the scenes, his producers eagerly exploited the grimmest episodes of vulnerable people’s lives, never disabusing them of the false assumption that appearing on “Springer” would somehow help them.

From Salon ● Jan. 7, 2025

The grimmest examples of germs’ role in history come from the European conquest of the Americas that began with Columbus’s voyage of 1492.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond