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gruesome

[groo-suhm] / ˈgru səm /


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It’s also getting more gruesome, and therefore less fun.

From Salon • Apr. 8, 2026

There are also concerns about the gruesome foot blisters that hampered Djokovic.

From BBC • Jan. 29, 2026

Our glamorous and gruesome history is all there in a close-up of “Chinatown’s” Jack Nicholson: a movie star with a mutilated nose.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 15, 2026

Marcia finds it “difficult to imagine what her retirement would be like—impossible and rather gruesome to speculate on it.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 2025

By the window, sitting on a wooden tripod stool, was the most gruesome memento of all: a mummy.

From "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan




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