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grimness

[ US /ˈɡɹɪmnəs/ ]
[ UK /ɡɹˈɪmnəs/ ]
NOUN
  1. something hard to endure
    the asperity of northern winters
  2. the quality of being ghastly

How To Use grimness In A Sentence

  • a spirit which Satan had bound, the schoolmaster caught sight, -- caught from its commonness, its grimness, its defeature, inspiration and uplifting, for there he beheld the oppressed, down trodden, mire fouled humanity which the man in whom he believed had loved because it was his father's humanity divided into brothers, and had died straining to lift back to the bosom of that Father. The Marquis of Lossie
  • All it is a balm from the relentless assault of cliched grimness we endure in SciFi. Is a grim, dark, nihilistic view of the future in SciFi...groundbreaking?
  • Grimness Street Karitane, 465 7300 or from Artist Development Agency NZ On Screen
  • From the grimness on the doctor's face as he studied the X-ray, I guessed it might well be the latter. NIGHT SISTERS
  • The novel depicts the grimness of life for the unemployed in Salford.
  • Luckily, some levity is emerging amid the grimness and serious analysis. Times, Sunday Times
  • The overall tone of the collection, despite the general grimness of the panorama, is gentle and serene. Circus Bulgaria by Deyan Enev – review
  • The book is unsparing in revealing the grimness and horror of war, of the sudden loss of friends, of living under appalling conditions, of ‘trying to do what I could with a tourniquet of webbing on a youngster who had lost a leg’.
  • After each jump, she gestured her thanks, the intensity at once gone, the smile as blazing as the grimness a moment before.
  • But now most popularize objects are aged and with low self-stuff, the popularizing agricultural technique faced grimness circumstance.
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