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grim

adjective as in hopeless, bleak

adjective as in stern, forbidding in appearance

adjective as in horrible in manner or appearance

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In that grim context, anti-war veterans will certainly be crucial allies in the struggle for peace and justice, but there will also have to be a cultural and psychological shift…

From Salon

The prime minister is now approaching a bleak-looking Budget and a grim set of local elections, and elections in Wales and Scotland, next May.

From BBC

This is the human cycle, a tale as old as time that takes on a grim new undertone in a time when matters feel very much life-or-death.

From Salon

But it would be another three days until the grim truth emerged.

Four years ago, construction workers clearing the land for a new hospital in northern France made a grim discovery.

From BBC

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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