gruesome
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It’s also getting more gruesome, and therefore less fun.
From Salon • Apr. 8, 2026
Their favorite move is a gasp-laugh, as when they flash a gruesome image on screen that’s so disgusting you can’t help but giggle.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2026
There are also concerns about the gruesome foot blisters that hampered Djokovic.
From BBC • Jan. 29, 2026
The only thing even more surprising is the status of Jayson Tatum, the superstar making $54 million this year whose gruesome injury was supposed to derail the season before it started.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 28, 2026
Forms and figures loomed out of the rain: boulders in our path, gruesome as ogres to my susceptible wits, hulking, pocked and eyed with limpets, shaggy with weeds.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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