Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Causing repugnance; gruesome. synonym: ghastly.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Such as to inspire fear; frightful; terrible; gruesome; grim: as, a grisly countenance; a grisly specter.
- Frightfully; terribly.
- An obsolete spelling of
grizzly .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Frightful; horrible; dreadful; harsh
- adjective (Zoöl.) See under
Grizzly .
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- adjective
horrifyingly repellent ;terrifying ,gruesome
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective shockingly repellent; inspiring horror
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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“The Veldt”, also by Bradbury, which chronicled in grisly fashion the dangers of holodeck technology.
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“The Veldt”, also by Bradbury, which chronicled in grisly fashion the dangers of holodeck technology.
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“The Veldt”, also by Bradbury, which chronicled in grisly fashion the dangers of holodeck technology.
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However, as their team begins to get picked off in grisly manners not fit for television, they realize they are in over their heads.
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Are journalists ever going to get beyond the word grisly?
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[Prosecutor describes housewife's rape, killing in grisly detail, Newsday, March 24, 2006].
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“Of course,” he is told bluntly, though he then hears, in grisly detail, about the sacrificial murder of a Vermont woodsman.
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[Prosecutor describes housewife's rape, killing in grisly detail, Newsday, March 24, 2006].
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“Of course,” he is told bluntly, though he then hears, in grisly detail, about the sacrificial murder of a Vermont woodsman.
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[Prosecutor describes housewife's rape, killing in grisly detail, Newsday, March 24, 2006].
“Without Immigrants, This Country Wouldn’t Be Anything” 2006
bilby commented on the word grisly
"More birds flew in through this hole; those which still remained in the guest-room rushed into the study. Flesh fell from Stark's twitching skeleton in a grisly rain."
- 'The Dark Half', Stephen King.
December 31, 2007