gruesome
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There are also concerns about the gruesome foot blisters that hampered Djokovic.
From BBC • Jan. 29, 2026
At its peak, there were over 6,000 Shakers, joining Ann in rebuking the gruesome, incalculable evils of war and preaching moral generosity.
From Salon • Dec. 27, 2025
Marcia finds it “difficult to imagine what her retirement would be like—impossible and rather gruesome to speculate on it.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 2025
That gruesome scenario is precisely what some analysts fear.
From Barron's • Dec. 17, 2025
The delivery boy added a high-pitched he-he-he to the gruesome details.
From "The Westing Game" by Ellen Raskin
Vocabulary lists containing gruesome
The Devil's Arithmetic
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