grewsome
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- grewsomely adverb
- grewsomeness noun
Example Sentences
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The grewsome growth of barberry bushes near Mowry’s Tavern was the scene of the first serious crime of the settlement of Providence Plantations.
From Stage-coach and Tavern Days by Earle, Alice Morse
There was something grewsome about that tiger's fiendish cunning.
From The Three Sapphires by Fraser, W. A.
"Death and Bonaparte" is a grewsome cartoon by Rowlandson, dated January 1, 1814.
From The History of the Nineteenth Century in Caricature by Cooper, Frederic Taber
This by-play formed an amusing recreation and frequently served to divert our minds from the more serious and grewsome happenings around us.
From The History of Company A, Second Illinois Cavalry by Fletcher, Samuel H.
This grewsome story is the one used by Meyerbeer in his opera of "Le Proph�te."
From A Short History of Germany by Parmele, Mary Platt
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