grim
/ɡɹɪm/ adjective B2- Dismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding. · Life was grim in many northern industrial towns.
- Rigid and unrelenting. · His grim determination enabled him to win.
- Ghastly or sinister. · A grim castle overshadowed the village.
- Disgusting; gross. · – Wanna see the dead rat I found in my fridge? – Mate, that is grim!
Comparative grimmer · Superlative grimmest
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He stifled, therefore, the feelings of compassion that were rising, composed his features, and sat down, grim and sombre, at his desk.
And yet those strange, peaked roofs and quaint, overhung gables were a fitting covering to grim and terrible intrigue.
At present my attention was centred upon the single grim motionless figure which lay stretched upon the boards, with vacant sightless eyes staring up at the discoloured ceiling.
Something like a reluctant smile, rather rusty from long disuse, mellowed Marilla’s grim expression.
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