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Meanings of grim in English
Causing dejection.
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Not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty.
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Examples for "stern"
Examples for "stern"
1
A stern-looking Medvedev replied: Identify those involved in committing this heinous crime.
2
Instead he had chosen exhausting labor and stern self-denial in the wilds.
3
I sat in the stern of the barge to tend the drag-rope.
4
McGee himself sat in the stern of the boat, paddle in hand.
5
He missed the house, and landed in the stern of the scow.
1
The American quest for peace today takes the shape of relentless war.
2
Perhaps only someone with his relentless focus could have come this far.
3
Thank you for your relentless efforts to bring Laura and Euna home.
4
But the relentless competition from Asia continues to challenge Paris's traditional hotels.
5
But so far the sector has continued on a relentless upward path.
1
The Englishman, in particular, wished to remain; but our host was inexorable.
2
You are refined in your wickedness; you are inexorable in your hate.
3
And it is also part of the inexorable process of language change.
4
We cannot escape the evils of life; they are inevitable and inexorable.
5
Truth's slow but it's inexorable and it does have a great power.
1
DON'T PANIC:Stocks have been pounded of late, with Tuesday's selling particularly unrelenting.
2
These changes have occurred because of unrelenting research in the medical sciences.
3
Quite a bit of the criticism is sexist and unfair and unrelenting.
4
The fierce and lawless shall assume the figure of the unrelenting wolf.
5
It seems that we're in for 43 minutes of unrelenting rock action.
1
Pagel said the rule as it was originally written was too unforgiving.
2
Dangers were plentiful and often unforgiving, but he understood and accepted them.
3
I may be unforgiving, but I can't work a grudge that long.
4
The stress when you don't forgive An unforgiving spirit stresses the body.
5
Joe Hart has just discovered what an unforgiving business elite football is.
1
The aspirations and desires of the human heart are infinite and unappeasable.
2
Tedge felt the glow of an unappeasable anger mount to his temples.
3
Bessie fumed, and for a couple of hours the quarrel was unappeasable.
4
What, then, shall fill the crying and unappeasable void of our souls?
5
He could not comprehend the deep and unappeasable passions that rent the Nation.
Usage of grim in English
1
It is possible the situation is less grim than it currently appears.
2
The Baghdad I left behind five years ago was a grim place.
3
Scotland's chief medical officer had another grim message for the public today.
4
They bring the grim reality of male violence into our living rooms.
5
This was the actual, and often quite grim, reality of the frontier.
6
They've already lost large numbers and next year is looking pretty grim.
7
Last year was a particularly grim era for MetroRail in Cape Town.
8
Var stared at the screen, contemplating the grim reality of her situation.
9
The situation is very grim, Delhi Fire Department Director Atul Garg said.
10
IRAQ: Somewhere in Iraq a grim and ghastly auction is taking place.
11
It was a grim risk that schools no longer wanted to take.
12
Potosí's grim but fascinating history has made tourism an important secondary industry.
13
Unfortunately, the grim statistics he presented only tell part of the story.
14
She wanted him: his power and his grim self-control, his beautiful voice.
15
In the main, however, the memories of that time were pretty grim.
16
Other doctors arrived, all grim faced and uttering incomprehensible words among themselves.
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