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  • adjective superlative form of gruesome: most gruesome.

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Examples

  • Young as he was he had already more than once looked on the face of death, and had felt no awe; he had listened to the gruesomest of tales, told not altogether without art, and had never moved a hair

    A Rough Shaking George MacDonald 1864

  • He unfortunately landed only about four feet from her and got the gruesomest scare of her life.

    Streetsblog New York City 2009

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