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Meanings of gruesomeness in anglès

The quality of being ghastly.

Usage of gruesomeness in anglès
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Some of the images do come alive, if only because of their gruesomeness.
The Irish Times
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Mikhail even enjoyed Shakespeare, particularly the gruesomeness and ghosts of Hamlet.
The Wolf’s Hour
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The smiling, bright, top part of it-andthe hidden gruesomeness underneath.
Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories
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Also there was a certain gruesomeness in the German reportage.
The Guardian
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There followed a scene savage and repulsive in its gruesomeness.
Best Russian Short Stories
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Reality check: The gruesomeness may repulse Wii owners drawn to the console's family friendly image.
Reuters
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Everybody rather revelled in the gruesomeness of the idea of a bottomless piece of water.
Emily Fox-Seton / Being "The Making of a Marchioness" and "The M...
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After this knotty question was settled an incident almost incredible in its awful gruesomeness took place.
The Shellback's Progress / In the Nineteenth Century
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It is rated PG-13 but is blissfully free of sexual overtones, course language, or violent gruesomeness.
Wired
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She tried to force her thoughts away when that gruesomeness, from that too-well-remembered, grim reaper's gaze.
Phantoms
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The gruesomeness of the situation became intensified.
A Damsel in Distress
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Vestigial images, encoded into their DNA, flitted through the flock, gaining gruesomeness as they passed from one to another.
The Water Witch
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The emptiness and disarray of the little room, flooded by the sunbeams, were producing in Trent a sense of gruesomeness.
The Woman in Black
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So much is certain, however, that in the matter of eyes being gouged out, an absolute mania of gruesomeness broke loose.
What Germany Thinks; Or, The War as Germans see it
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All of which bears out their fervent belief that there's always light in darkness, just as there's always humour in gruesomeness.
The Guardian
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We have been friends from the beginning: to us are grief, gruesomeness, and ground common; even the sun is common to us.
Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None
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