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• Before leaving the UK I'd noticed pub signs becoming more humourous rather than gruesome, and thought they had become victim to the PC brigade. —  Ramblings of the Bearded One
• The killing was gruesome, and LeLeaux "has never explained why he did it." —  Home
• "[122] And in not a few of his poems we see a certain predilection for the gruesome, the horrible. —  Types of Weltschmerz in German Poetry
• It seems a little gruesome, doesn't it, but not after you have been in the trenches for a while A little gruesome--true! —  My Year of the War Including an Account of Experiences with the Troops in France and the Record of a Visit to the Grand Fleet Which is Here Given for the First Time in its Complete Form
• This is gruesome, and it is not something that most people would want to see. —  Planet Atheism

Roget's II: The New Thesaurus

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