Gruesome
adjective
Causing shock or horror, very unpleasant or disgusting.
The horror movie was filled with gruesome scenes.
Often appears as...
- gruesome murder
- gruesome discovery
adjective
Referring to bloody or violent situations.
The detective was used to dealing with gruesome crimes.
Often appears as...
- gruesome details
- gruesome injury
adjective
Causing shock or horror, very unpleasant or disgusting.
The horror movie was filled with gruesome scenes.
Often appears as...
- gruesome murder
- gruesome discovery
adjective
Referring to bloody or violent situations.
The detective was used to dealing with gruesome crimes.
Often appears as...
- gruesome details
- gruesome injury
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Pro Tip 1/3Horror Impact
Use 'gruesome' to describe scenes or details that are meant to shock or disgust, especially in horror genres.
The gruesome depiction of zombies overwhelmed him.
Pro Tip 2/3Emotional Weight
'Gruesome' carries a heavy emotional charge; it can elicit strong reactions or emotions.
News reporters often avoid the word 'gruesome' to maintain a neutral tone.
Pro Tip 3/3Visual Imagery
When 'gruesome' is used, it typically creates a vivid, shocking image in the mind's eye.
The book's gruesome illustrations were not suitable for children.
Pro Tip 1/3Horror Impact
Use 'gruesome' to describe scenes or details that are meant to shock or disgust, especially in horror genres.
The gruesome depiction of zombies overwhelmed him.
Pro Tip 2/3Emotional Weight
'Gruesome' carries a heavy emotional charge; it can elicit strong reactions or emotions.
News reporters often avoid the word 'gruesome' to maintain a neutral tone.
Pro Tip 3/3Visual Imagery
When 'gruesome' is used, it typically creates a vivid, shocking image in the mind's eye.
The book's gruesome illustrations were not suitable for children.
Pro Tip 1/3Horror Impact
Use 'gruesome' to describe scenes or details that are meant to shock or disgust, especially in horror genres.
The gruesome depiction of zombies overwhelmed him.
Pro Tip 2/3Emotional Weight
'Gruesome' carries a heavy emotional charge; it can elicit strong reactions or emotions.
News reporters often avoid the word 'gruesome' to maintain a neutral tone.
Pro Tip 3/3Visual Imagery
When 'gruesome' is used, it typically creates a vivid, shocking image in the mind's eye.
The book's gruesome illustrations were not suitable for children.
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Video examples
Fatal Encounter with...
It's pretty grim, not the sort of thing you can show on any screen. The baboon slowly ate the baby alive as it bleated for its mother, and that's the image and memory I have. In the space of maybe 5 minutes I witness the full, gruesome circle of life.
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Jeff Bezos: The...
That's what you did. You didn't turn it off. And as I said before, they hadn't invented the electric outlet either, so the washing machine was a particularly dangerous device. And there are -- when you research this, there are gruesome descriptions
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Alex Smith: An NFL...
kind of like a corkscrew. And yes, it's as painful as it sounds. I knew right there on the field that my season was done. What took me a little longer to figure out was that my life was about to change forever. Two years after that gruesome injury,
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How to separate fact and...
actually becomes the most important repository of information about what's going on in the world. So this video, I'm not going to show you the whole thing, because it's quite gruesome, but you'll hear some of the sounds. This is from Hama.
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The path to ending...
was too large to fit into his body. And without thinking about it, I said right back, "That's because it's too large to fit into a lifetime." What we're seeing isn't just the response to one gruesome, cruel, public execution. A lynching.
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Welcome to the Body Farm...
body that's decomposed to this it's a standard it will provide I think a gold standard for the process of decomposition the work at the body farm is important to solving crimes but it's also gruesome this corpse has been outside for two
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How vultures can help...
start pulling the tissues, and leave you with a skeleton. Therefore, the importance of vultures is not in the air, but on the ground. Vulture scavenging is somewhat gruesome. If you're ever on a bad first date, just reference this talk,
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How can we support the...
so that I could support him in this thing that I could not even comprehend. And we recognize that need for police officers who've witnessed a gruesome crime scene and nurses who have lost a patient.
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See Yemen through my...
paintings comics to tell the world and each other about what's going on obviously there is always the dark side of it and this is just one of the less gruesome pictures of the Revolution and
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Bone Collector PIPE Ben...
starting with a whole animal the first and most important process is to actually strip it down so involves lots of dissecting quite gruesome but you
Video examples
Fatal Encounter with...
It's pretty grim, not the sort of thing you can show on any screen. The baboon slowly ate the baby alive as it bleated for its mother, and that's the image and memory I have. In the space of maybe 5 minutes I witness the full, gruesome circle of life.
Video examples
Jeff Bezos: The...
That's what you did. You didn't turn it off. And as I said before, they hadn't invented the electric outlet either, so the washing machine was a particularly dangerous device. And there are -- when you research this, there are gruesome descriptions
Video examples
Alex Smith: An NFL...
kind of like a corkscrew. And yes, it's as painful as it sounds. I knew right there on the field that my season was done. What took me a little longer to figure out was that my life was about to change forever. Two years after that gruesome injury,
Video examples
How to separate fact and...
actually becomes the most important repository of information about what's going on in the world. So this video, I'm not going to show you the whole thing, because it's quite gruesome, but you'll hear some of the sounds. This is from Hama.
Video examples
The path to ending...
was too large to fit into his body. And without thinking about it, I said right back, "That's because it's too large to fit into a lifetime." What we're seeing isn't just the response to one gruesome, cruel, public execution. A lynching.
Video examples
Welcome to the Body Farm...
body that's decomposed to this it's a standard it will provide I think a gold standard for the process of decomposition the work at the body farm is important to solving crimes but it's also gruesome this corpse has been outside for two
Video examples
How vultures can help...
start pulling the tissues, and leave you with a skeleton. Therefore, the importance of vultures is not in the air, but on the ground. Vulture scavenging is somewhat gruesome. If you're ever on a bad first date, just reference this talk,
Video examples
How can we support the...
so that I could support him in this thing that I could not even comprehend. And we recognize that need for police officers who've witnessed a gruesome crime scene and nurses who have lost a patient.
Video examples
See Yemen through my...
paintings comics to tell the world and each other about what's going on obviously there is always the dark side of it and this is just one of the less gruesome pictures of the Revolution and
Video examples
Bone Collector PIPE Ben...
starting with a whole animal the first and most important process is to actually strip it down so involves lots of dissecting quite gruesome but you
Example 1 of 10
Quote examples
Fay Wray
American Actress
So I was asked to do horror film after horror film, a series of about five, after that, and some of those were a little too gruesome. I wasn't too comfortable all the time in those. I didn't really care for them.
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Jurgen Habermas
German Philosopher
Perhaps September 11 could be called the first historic world event in the strictest sense: the impact, the explosion, the slow collapse - a gruesome reality literally took place in front of a global public.
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Ann Cleeves
British Writer
My work is less violent because we tend to write what we want to read... and I'm not that interested in gruesome books. Any violence, to fit in well with a crime novel, has to have compassion.
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Akhil Sharma
Indian Author
Family Life' is a blueprint of my life. It was horrible and physically gruesome in a way the book doesn't attempt to capture. It was emotionally very bleak.
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George Eads
American Actor
I've seen a dead body, I've seen some pretty gruesome fist fights, I've been a hunter since I was a child, though I don't anymore, I've gutted wild game.
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Tony DiTerlizzi
American Artist
If you want the beautiful moments to shine, you have to contrast that with dark and gruesome moments. That's the way life is.
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Greg van Eekhout
Writer
I don't think that eating bones is necessarily gruesome unless you're a vegetarian.
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Johan Renck
Swedish Director
If I feel the labor and the gruesome process, that helps me appreciate the art.
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Jenny Holzer
American Artist
It can be kind of gruesome at times, making things alone.
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Colin Firth
British Actor
Forget trying to be sexy. That's just gruesome.
Quote examples
Fay Wray
American Actress
So I was asked to do horror film after horror film, a series of about five, after that, and some of those were a little too gruesome. I wasn't too comfortable all the time in those. I didn't really care for them.
Quote examples
Jurgen Habermas
German Philosopher
Perhaps September 11 could be called the first historic world event in the strictest sense: the impact, the explosion, the slow collapse - a gruesome reality literally took place in front of a global public.
Quote examples
Ann Cleeves
British Writer
My work is less violent because we tend to write what we want to read... and I'm not that interested in gruesome books. Any violence, to fit in well with a crime novel, has to have compassion.
Quote examples
Akhil Sharma
Indian Author
Family Life' is a blueprint of my life. It was horrible and physically gruesome in a way the book doesn't attempt to capture. It was emotionally very bleak.
Quote examples
George Eads
American Actor
I've seen a dead body, I've seen some pretty gruesome fist fights, I've been a hunter since I was a child, though I don't anymore, I've gutted wild game.
Quote examples
Tony DiTerlizzi
American Artist
If you want the beautiful moments to shine, you have to contrast that with dark and gruesome moments. That's the way life is.
Quote examples
Greg van Eekhout
Writer
I don't think that eating bones is necessarily gruesome unless you're a vegetarian.
Quote examples
Johan Renck
Swedish Director
If I feel the labor and the gruesome process, that helps me appreciate the art.
Quote examples
Jenny Holzer
American Artist
It can be kind of gruesome at times, making things alone.
Quote examples
Colin Firth
British Actor
Forget trying to be sexy. That's just gruesome.
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