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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)
- grisly statistics
- 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