grim

The Clean Clothes Campaign, external - a global workers' rights network - said our findings painted a "very grim picture".

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

Now white haired with a neatly trimmed beard and sunken cheeks, Bakker’s once upbeat delivery and playful repartee with guests had been replaced by a grim figure.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

October has a fearsome reputation for stock-market tumult, largely due to a handful of notoriously grim selloffs.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 4, 2026

Behind it, a revolving turntable exposed rubble-strewn outdoor expanses and the grim, stony interiors of Macbeth’s castle.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

By autumn of 1860, Americans struggled with the spread of armed conflicts over slavery, and American newspapers reflected the country’s grim mood.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock

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

In earlier decades, a grimmer economic mood usually meant lower inflation-adjusted spending, while shopping picked up when consumers reported more optimism.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 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

Other, grimmer recent headlines help to explain why.

From Slate ● Jun. 17, 2024

Adulthood, after all, already loomed, where she would have to make grimmer and grimmer decisions.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

When asked about the economy in surveys, people are reporting one of the grimmest economic moods on record.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026

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

It could be argued that the grimmest portrayals of nuclear war — the opposite of what “Fallout” does — don’t serve anyone better than downplaying the risks and the aftermath of apocalypse.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 9, 2024

For now, however, the grimmest of eventualities may have been avoided—all thanks to a mixture of luck and Icelandic proactivity.

From National Geographic ● Dec. 19, 2023

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