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"[122] And in not a few of his poems we see a certain predilection for the gruesome, the horrible.

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grisly ·  ghastly ·  horrific ·  bizarre ·  frighten ·  scary ·  tragic ·  ludicrous ·  humiliate ·  loathsome ·  macabre ·  fearsome
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  1. Obsolete grue, to shudder (from Middle English gruen, from Middle Dutch grūwen or Middle Low German gruwen) + -some1.
 

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/ˈgrusum/
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