gruesome
/ˈɡɹusəm/ adjective C1- Repellently frightful and shocking; ghastly, horrific.
- Awful, terrible. · The team was so unprepared that the way it played was just gruesome.
Comparative gruesomer · Superlative gruesomest
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It had been a gruesome experience, but it served him right, he thought, for committing the heresy of going to a strange store.
Her imagination began to suggest all manner of gruesome possibilities to her.
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