What does grisly mean?
Grisly means Horrifyingly repellent; gruesome, terrifying..
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/ˈɡɹɪzli/ · adjective
Horrifyingly repellent; gruesome, terrifying..
The photographs of the killings depict a grisly scene.
Magnes and many thinges attractive are, / But nothing ſo allective under ſkyes, / As that ſame dainty amiable ſtarre, / That none but griſly mouth of hell defyes.
Then clad in cloake of mistie fogges the darke night vp did come, / And with grim grislie looke did seeme to bid me get me home; […]
It was sore travelling for horse and man under the blazing sun, with no food nor water save what he pressed from the pith of the palms, and even these were growing scarce. The only life on the plains was the hard and dusty scrub. Every hour brought a more hopeless and grislier desolation.
We know too well the bestial assault you are making upon the Russian people, to whom our hearts go out in their valiant struggle. We will have no truce or parley with you, or the grisly gang who work your wicked will. You do your worst and we will do our best.
In his [Galway Kinnell's] new book, Body Rags, he has brought this style to a kind of perfection, especially in two poems about the killing of animals, "The Porcupine" and "The Bear." These are the grisliest poems I have ever read.
Perhaps you have to have seen the first film to like this one; to feel, like the young fans of Harry Potter, that without knowing or wanting it, you have grown up with its grisly protagonists.
Ireland’s capital is no longer in lockdown but the grisly sport continues.
Use grisly when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Grisly means Horrifyingly repellent; gruesome, terrifying..
Common synonyms include grimly, horribly, terribly, grisy.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
The photographs of the killings depict a grisly scene.
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