adjective
definition
Repellently frightful and shocking; horrific or ghastly.
Examples of gruesome in a Sentence
When he opened his eyes, he found a gruesome sight awaiting him.
That's a gruesome thought—and disappointing, too.
While the Deans were pleased that Martha had confided in them about her gruesome discovery, her pending exit remained an ever-present pall that hung over the remainder of the evening like a chilly fog.
The last thing she needed was more of the gruesome visions!
Tho the scenes are often dark, gruesome and evil looking, there's little actual bloodshed and only brief scenes featuring the chainsaw.
We present the sometimes gruesome facts of this murky, convoluted international legal quagmire.
Later books in the series are much darker and she kills off some characters in quite gruesome ways.
Were you pleased by our rather gruesome discovery?
On a gruesome theme we have the deliberate ceremonial evocation of deific or devilish forms.
You can also pick up a gruesome gargoyle or some fiendish Hallowe'en outfits.
The details of Husayn's actual death are fairly gruesome.
In medical terms the description of a hangover sounds even more gruesome.
And her sexual liaisons are usually met with a gruesome outcome.
Soon afterward the girl is found murdered in the woods - the first in a series of grisly, gruesome murders.
A stall sells T-shirts with the slogan " Keep Scotland tidy, bin the gruesome twosome.
Sound a tad gruesome for your home design?
It sounds so gruesome!
In his gruesome descriptions of physical sufferings the author offends against good taste even more than the writer of 2 Macc., while both contrast very unfavourably in this respect with the sober reserve of the gospel narratives.
The crime was selling a zillion newspapers as the bloodthirsty public read with glee details of the gruesome treasure hunt that continued throughout the week.
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As the film gets increasingly violent and intense, the director maintains a dry, sardonic tone that makes the gruesome bloodletting almost comical.
Over a half-century later, a rookie cop connects Short's murder to a series of gruesome present-day killings.
In the first series, the episode on the training day where Brent goes home to get his guitar is particularly gruesome.
You are a serial killer investigator who is assigned to some very dark and gruesome locations.
They are home to a vast selection of pretty gruesome independent horror movies.
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Resistance 2 - This follow-up to the first Resistance video game offers intense first-person shooter action with gritty graphics and gruesome enemies.
Michael Reynolds is a B-movie producer whose movies were so gruesome they were banned from most theatres.
Whereas the Super Nintendo version eliminated the blood, and took out the most gruesome fatalities, the rendition found on the Sega Genesis included the blood and fatalities in all their head-ripping glory.
She was expecting to see some gruesome scene like that in the second bedroom caused by Darkyn's demons a week ago or what he'd done to his own demons who tried to drink her blood in Hell.
That's a gruesome thought—and disappointing, too.
It was gruesome, but that's what he did.
A unique combination of real history, horror and humor bring gruesome goings-on back to life in the 21st century.
In fact, it could look a bit gruesome and icky.
Never in all my years would I expect to have seen anything so horribly gruesome; all the blood, the carnage.
They leave their skin cases behind, which look rather gruesome still clinging, lifeless, to the iris leaves.
Despite one particularly gruesome bout of violence that we see in episode 3, Harry is more than a purely one-dimensional villain.
Richard Barrett (now a private investigator) has been invited to regale the guests with gruesome tales of his trade.
Flails and maces are gruesome looking items with spiked heads on chains for hitting opponents over their shields.
Over the hill birthday cakes don't always have to have a gruesome death theme.
Torque has blackouts and cannot seem to remember that he performed this gruesome act.
Remember, children don't need to know every single fact or detail, especially if was a gruesome death.
Others are haunting because of how many gruesome details are present.
Villisca House is a famous case in Iowa that is based around a gruesome family murder in 1912, where two adults and their three children were murdered in their beds.
Although the tales are almost always gruesome and sometimes sad, you can't help but be mesmerized by such dreadful stories.
Lucas' Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom screenplay is gruesome and silly in turns, and sometimes simultaneously.
She'd grown up never having seen death, and in the past week, she'd seen it in its most gruesome forms.
Evelyn did have a way of making even the most gruesome day of spring cleaning fun.
Then it is curtains for sure... and much more gruesome.
Without a doubt, it would be a diversion from the gruesome thoughts that had plagued her mind lately.