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grimmest
adjective as in hopeless, horrible in manner, appearance
Strongest matches
Weak matches
- austere
- barbarous
- cantankerous
- churlish
- crabbed
- crusty
- dogged
- ferocious
- fierce
- forbidding
- foreboding
- formidable
- frightful
- funereal
- glowering
- grouchy
- grumpy
- hideous
- implacable
- inexorable
- intractable
- merciless
- morose
- relentless
- resolute
- ruthless
- scowling
- severe
- sinister
- splenetic
- stubborn
- sulky
- sullen
- surly
- truculent
- unrelenting
- unyielding
Example Sentences
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.
For now, however, the grimmest of eventualities may have been avoided—all thanks to a mixture of luck and Icelandic proactivity.
It can feel like that grimmest of media moments, being cornered by a reporter wanting to talk about their old stories.
The brotherly banter, laced with friendly trash talk, was a popular feature during the grimmest days of the pandemic, despite criticism that it represented a journalistic conflict of interest.
Two others look to the grimmest chapters of the country’s past.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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