grimsome

comparative more grimsome · superlative most grimsome

1. Characterised or marked by grimness; somber

   Numb and grimsome. It is a disgrace.

   2013, Jonathan Strahan, Fearsome Journeys

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   Am I some deep-sea snake-monster that thou, thou grimsome watcher, watch me even when I swallow my spittle?

   2010, Tyler Blanski, Clay Eyes

   “[...] Is there something on your mind that you need you want to talk about cause you scaring me with that wide eyed grimsome look”?

   2011, ghetto english rock / Attaway, Bitches Brew

   The poor ragged old soul continued to gasp, / Barely puffing out his last grimsome yasp, “You, young plop, are one part Oxygen, / Which fish borrow or steal, / It's here again, gone again. Do you miss it? How do you feel?

   2013, Kevin Alan Richards, Plop the Raindrop

   The appellation, melancholia, / Rings grimsome cannotations [sic] to the mind / Of fearful lapses caused by constant thought / Of hardships, accusations and forebodings, / Preying to disorient in space / The will to reason and for what one wrought.

   2014, Rames J. Bucci, Destiny