grisly

It’s a grisly, funny ritual in which they reveal the self-disgust that their menial jobs have inculcated in them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026

Burke’s family resisted being subpeoned to the grand jury and a court document from that legal battle revealed grisly details about what police found inside the Burke’s Tesla.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2026

"I did think it was a bit grisly but I was mostly intrigued," he says.

From BBC ● Mar. 22, 2026

It took rescuers 17 days to make contact with the buried men, and when they did everyone expected to find a grisly scene of madness and death.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 4, 2026

He had no inkling that his adopted city would, indeed, witness the unleashing of the new science of genetics, but in its most grisly form in history.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

The S&P 500 has lost 12 percent on the year, but Tesla has lost a much grislier 40 percent.

From Slate ● Apr. 22, 2025

Perhaps the point is in the impressive discipline of the filmmaking, though if anything, given its premise, the movie wants to be a grislier, more nastily unhinged piece of work than it manages.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 2023

Tate’s own children described a grislier scene inside the trailer.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 17, 2022

Walking through a bustling Montgomery Ward department store days before Christmas in 1972, he found inspiration for a grislier kind of movie in a display of gleaming chain saws.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 28, 2017

The Residency is a fine large building in an advanced stage of decomposition; the glorious vegetation around it—cotton-trees, caoutchouc-figs, and magnificent oleanders—making the pile look grimmer and grislier.

From To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

“Yee’s play is a fierce, gorgeous, heartwarming, comedic fairy tale set against one of history’s grisliest mass extinctions,” wrote Margaret Gray in her review for The Times in 2018.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 9, 2024

Still, the grisliest details are about how these botched investigations can lead to dubious results and months-long delays in death certificates, which take a toll on families.

From Slate ● May 20, 2019

Watson had just mentioned one of the grisliest parts of her rehabilitation after she tore her right anterior cruciate ligament and lateral meniscus in January: “the bending process.”

From Washington Post ● Nov. 17, 2018

But when they have time to edit, TV stations have generally avoided showing the grisliest of footage because viewers complain when they see it, he said.

From New York Times ● Jun. 17, 2016

Because of this cold reality, most jockeys would ride through virtually anything, and they shrugged off the grisliest injuries.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand