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gruesomeness

/groo-suhm/US // ˈgru səm //UK // (ˈɡruːsəm) //

惨烈,丑陋,恐怖,残酷

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : causing great horror; horribly repugnant; grisly: the site of a gruesome murder.
    • : full of or causing problems; distressing: a gruesome day at the office.

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Examples

  • CBS declined to show a replay of the hit Burrow absorbed because it was so gruesome.

  • Unfortunately, Hayward suffered a gruesome leg injury in his Boston debut, missed the rest of the season and watched as Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown ascended, diminishing his offensive role.

  • The touchdown pass was the second this season for Smith, who earned his first win since his own gruesome injury at FedEx Field in November two years ago.

  • Anthony Mackie and Jamie Dornan star as New Orleans paramedics who encounter a series of bizarre, gruesome accidents in the sci-fi thriller Synchronic.

  • For some, the joyride can veer from titillating—think Goldshire, the sexy World of Warcraft town beloved by erotic role-players, or the thrill you get from making a nasty joke in Cards Against Humanity—to genuinely gruesome.

  • Cleaning the birds out is a slightly more gruesome experience.

  • Going forward in our war against ISIS, sadly we will likely see more gruesome acts perpetrated by them against Americans.

  • A shortage of pentobarbital has forced some states to improvise, often with gruesome consequences.

  • Armed with the gruesome tools of the trade, Kaye and Armstrong did the dirty work before students arrived.

  • Gupta has to entertain, as much as inform, around a gruesome situation.

  • The guerrillas had hung the body of the corporal from a tree and there it dangled over the road, a gruesome object.

  • Was it any wonder that she was horrified when she recalled that gruesome episode of the death of a brave and honest man?

  • Well, it would seem rather gruesome, if girls were to be overpowered with that passion.

  • There was that in the mere form and outline of this gruesome wonder of the vegetable world that instinctively aroused aversion.

  • The wind appeared to blow it about very harshly, and a gruesome company of dragons and griffins encompassed it.