grewsome
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- grewsomely adverb
- grewsomeness noun
Example Sentences
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The issues of the war were so clear-cut, their ethical significance so momentous, that an American Gillray, a Unionist Gillray, would have found material for a series of cartoons of eloquent and grewsome power.
From The History of the Nineteenth Century in Caricature by Cooper, Frederic Taber
It was a story full of grewsome romance, this tale of the unheralded coming of two monsters among a simple, honest, scattered, yet neighborly, woods-people.
From Oldfield A Kentucky Tale of the Last Century by Banks, Nancy Huston
There had been a bunch of faded flowers upon the mound; he restored these and with a sigh of relief shouldered his spade and auger and took his departure, glad to leave the grewsome spot.
From Sons and Fathers by Edwards, Harry Stillwell
The house-gathering afterward savoured of the grewsome conviviality of a funeral assemblage.
From Ghetto Tragedies by Zangwill, Israel
It did, indeed, go by the name of “Robinson’s Haunted House”; but in the late afternoon sunlight none of the visitors thought of the grewsome stories told of it.
From The Girls of Central High Rivals for All Honors by Morrison, Gertrude W.
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