grim

“So many people feel that aging is some grim reality, we have to just suck it up,” he said, “but you can have an enormous impact on these things.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Our investigation traced authentic replica shirts to two factories in Cambodia, where conditions were described as "grim".

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

Now white haired with a neatly trimmed beard and sunken cheeks, Bakker’s once upbeat delivery and playful repartee with guests had been replaced by a grim figure.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

October has a fearsome reputation for stock-market tumult, largely due to a handful of notoriously grim selloffs.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 4, 2026

Life would be awfully grim and glum if I couldn’t laugh at myself.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff

Reports David has heard from clients in Cameroon are even grimmer: the IOM has refused to facilitate medical care for some detainees, the lawyer said.

From Barron's ● Jul. 7, 2026

In earlier decades, a grimmer economic mood usually meant lower inflation-adjusted spending, while shopping picked up when consumers reported more optimism.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026

Disney’s latest animated film, “Zootopia 2,” a sequel to its 2016 box-office juggernaut, isn’t exactly an adult political drama, though the stakes certainly feel grimmer.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 25, 2025

But as bad as the disruptions and damage to public schools will be, Mahmoud will be infamous for grimmer reasons.

From Slate ● Jun. 30, 2025

She was living alone with John in a furnished room even grimmer than the room that had been hers in Madame Williams’s apartment.

From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin

In the grimmest bad taste, the letter gave Haifa until “7 October 2026” to respond.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

Behind the scenes, his producers eagerly exploited the grimmest episodes of vulnerable people’s lives, never disabusing them of the false assumption that appearing on “Springer” would somehow help them.

From Salon ● Jan. 7, 2025

It could be argued that the grimmest portrayals of nuclear war — the opposite of what “Fallout” does — don’t serve anyone better than downplaying the risks and the aftermath of apocalypse.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 9, 2024

For now, however, the grimmest of eventualities may have been avoided—all thanks to a mixture of luck and Icelandic proactivity.

From National Geographic ● Dec. 19, 2023

The grimmest examples of germs’ role in history come from the European conquest of the Americas that began with Columbus’s voyage of 1492.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond