grim
Example Sentences
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By autumn of 1860, Americans struggled with the spread of armed conflicts over slavery, and American newspapers reflected the country’s grim mood.
From Literature
The failure rate for startups is pretty grim.
Life would be awfully grim and glum if I couldn’t laugh at myself.
From Literature
At the Blue Note, Jean performs a kind of Haitian exceptionalism: a sensorially rich, festal theater that serves as a necessary counterweight to the country’s grim realities of poverty and political neglect.
From Los Angeles Times
But the facts, for USC, are pretty grim at this point.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
