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Meanings of grimness in English
Something hard to endure.
Synonyms
Examples for "ghastliness"
Examples for "ghastliness"
1
But there was a ghastliness in the whole thing which frightened her.
2
Removed from harrowing scenes of ghastliness and distress, the court made merry.
3
She drained its contents, but the ghastliness of her appearance remained unchanged.
4
So it seemed to me then, before I had seen greater ghastliness.
5
She got no further, however, for she observed the ghastliness of Helene's face.
1
Some of the images do come alive, if only because of their gruesomeness.
2
Mikhail even enjoyed Shakespeare, particularly the gruesomeness and ghosts of Hamlet.
3
The smiling, bright, top part of it-andthe hidden gruesomeness underneath.
4
Also there was a certain gruesomeness in the German reportage.
5
There followed a scene savage and repulsive in its gruesomeness.
1
Beyond the window, the lightning flashed with an awful luridness upon the rushing hail.
2
The luridness of war was over everything.
3
The clinical mood of the video is intentional, in order to remove anything associated with luridness or pornography.
Usage of grimness in English
1
The wretchedness and grimness of it all smote him to the heart.
2
Demarest won't be the same without your mesomorphic grimness, he said matter-of-factly.
3
One way or the other, he added, a grimness to his tone.
4
Sun-bright Ganymede holds a different kind of grimness, just as chillingly divine.
5
The grimness went out of his frown, the reluctance from his attitude.
6
Alton laughed, but there was a trace of grimness in his voice.
7
Max answered, a curious blending of grimness and tenderness in his voice.
8
Peter was troubled by the grimness that settled in his master's face.
9
Hal was forced to smile at the grimness of the boy's tones.
10
It is a good-natured bit of raillery, with something of grimness underneath.
11
Yet, as he turned round, the air of grimness was perceptible again.
12
There was a certain grimness apparent about Crowther also by that time.
13
His initial grimness she could understand, and partially its breakdown into irritability.
14
An odd note of tenderness crept through the grimness of Monck's speech.
15
I expected to meet a creature of almost heraldic grimness-rampant ,disregardant ,gules
16
I have paid my half-dollar, the doctor added, with a certain grimness.
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