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repellent or sickening — frequently as with the uncensored depiction of gruesome death or injury

a grisly murder

Even by the standards of plane crashes, it was a grisly tragedy...
Time, 2009 -- http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1914815_1914808_1914788,00.html (retrieved 10/15/09)
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I went in and saw the surgeon labor awhile, but could not enjoy; it was much less trying to see the wounds given and received than to see them mended; ...one's nerves were wrung by this grisly spectacle, whilst the duel's compensating pleasurable thrill was lacking.
Mark Twain -- A Tramp Abroad
As at the waving of a magician's wand, up rose a grisly phantom...
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Scarlet Letter
One more to swell the grim and grisly ranks of the Undead!
Bram Stoker -- Dracula
A rally washeld, after which the armed men went on a rampage, murdering approximately thirty people in a dreadful and grisly attack.
Nelson Mandela -- Long Walk to Freedom
The more grisly my situation became, the more I felt as if some immense power were sucking me into some giant undertow.
Dave Pelzer -- A Child Called It
The grisly photograph was taken on the white conference table by a sterile house technician under the reluctant supervision of Morris Panov.
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Supremacy
He scrabbled for the dagger where Sebastian had dropped it, next to the grisly remains of his hand.
Cassandra Clare -- City of Glass
There is one picture, a lithoprint of two coy, grisly children in pseudo-peasant costume, vaguely Austrian, using a mushroom for an umbrella.
Margaret Atwood -- Cat's Eye
Many of the houses were afire, and the Jaqqa rhan had been about their grisly work.
George R.R. Martin -- A Game of Thrones
The purple, puckered scar was even grislier than the ones Aunt Hannah and Martin had shown them.
Lauren Tarshis -- I Survived: The Nazi Invasion, 1944
At three A.M., the scene is so grisly that Mary is no longer admitted.
Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard -- Killing Lincoln
"I suspect that's something you do remember, grisly details being the most memorable."
Trenton Lee Stewart -- The Mysterious Benedict Society
I had to look at Nigel to see whether he was making a grisly joke.
Octavia Butler -- Kindred
One might have been tempted to think his frock coat gave off a grisly odor, but that would have been pure prejudice.
Thomas Mann -- The Magic Mountain
With Peeta's grisly account fresh in our minds, we crunch through the streets of broken glass until we reach our target, the block we are to take.
Suzanne Collins -- Mockingjay
If he were dead up there these three days, it would be a grisly business.
Geraldine Brooks -- Year of Wonders
Within the next mile we counted six more hanging forms by the blaze of the lightning, and altogether it was a grisly excursion.
Mark Twain -- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

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