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/ˈɡɹɪm/
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NOUN
- the younger of the two Grimm brothers remembered best for their fairy stories (1786-1859)
- the older of the two Grimm brothers remembered best for their fairy stories; also author of Grimm's law describing consonant changes in Germanic languages (1785-1863)
How To Use Grimm In A Sentence
- Grimm leveled his confiscated weapon at the blue-clad human, sighting down its length.
- Everywhere in the 19th century students of folklore itself a newly invented word plumped up their local legends, sagas and fairy tales just as much as Jacob Grimm and Richard Wagner did in Germany. Hitler's Golden Book
- He gestured for Grimm to proceed.
- You know, most recording studios are in the grimmest of locations.
- This ghost, laughing a little too loudly, would be all the more terrible for the flicker of awful, self-deluding pride kindling in it at the thought of white-knuckling through the grimmest month of the year with nothing to talk about in company but how it has given up drink. After the Binge Must Come the Purge
- Initial daydreams of a little finca close to a Spanish beach were destroyed by the cost of even the grimmest coastal properties.
- Table-Be-Set, Gold-Donkey, and Cudgel-out-of-the-SackJacob and Wilhelm Grimm There was once upon a time a tailor who had three sons, and only one goat.
- The always-reliable Adam Kirsch comes through in Slate: "In a novel full of grim jokes, the grimmest is the possibility that if the planet is to stand a chance of being saved, its fate may lie in the hands of a man like Michael Beard. Anis Shivani: Why American Reviewers Disliked Ian McEwan's "Solar": And What That Says About the Cultural Establishment
- Within the St. Floris region, the most abundant large mammals seem to be kob Kobus kob, hartebeest Alcelaphus buselaphus and grey duiker Sylvicapra grimmia, with other fairly abundant ungulates including waterbuck Kobus ellipsiprymnus, oribi Ourebia ourebi, topi Damaliscus lunatus, reedbuck Redunca redunca, roan antelope Hippotragus equines and giant eland Taurotragus derbianus; also buffalo Syncerus caffer, warthog Phacochoerus aethiopicus and hippopotamus Hippopotamus amphibius. Manovo-Gounda-St Floris National Park, Central African Republic
- The Grimm Ambient drags even lower with ‘Bathory,’ starting with thudding subharmonics, spreading out and shuddering to reluctant end.