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grim

[grim] / grɪm /




ADJECTIVE
horrible in manner or appearance
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Among the many grim lessons that play out in this show is that every sought-after power comes with a huge cost.

From Salon • Jun. 24, 2026

Evans said the main theme of the film was poverty, but while it "sounds a bit grim, it's not".

From BBC • Jun. 18, 2026

The responses about traditional media apps and websites were also grim reading, with none of the age tranches surveyed saying they were their first port of call for news.

From Barron's • Jun. 15, 2026

“Stobaeus offers his son a strictly pagan view of the afterlife, as a grim and joyless eternity spent underground.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026

There was no denying that their situation was looking grim.

From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple




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