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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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This is the grim reality of night time in Kyiv and other cities across Ukraine.

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Chanting and singing "free the Amazon", demonstrators in host city Belém have been carrying three giant coffins reading Oil, Coal and Gas flanked by two grim reapers.

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Learning about death offered Harvey some escape from her grim reality.

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The point isn’t perfection — it’s having one homemade flourish that makes Monday morning feel considered, not grim.

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The expectation for this autumn was considered grim with the return of La Niña in the central and eastern Pacific Ocean.

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

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