grisly
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"I did think it was a bit grisly but I was mostly intrigued," he says.
From BBC • Mar. 22, 2026
The setup of this animated film sounds like a gag: A Viking, a ninja and a World War II pilot are thrown into a Predator movie that plays like a grisly triptych.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 10, 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
I’d traveled to Edinburgh with a dark purpose: to uncover the grisly stories and Gothic artifacts that helped inspire Mary Shelley to write one of the world’s most enduring horror tales.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 24, 2025
It was chief of all the horrors of the fen, and even the angry rats turned tail and fled when they saw its grisly head emerging.
From "Beowulf: A New Telling" by Robert Nye
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