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Recent Examples of gnarly
Weapons filmmaker Zach Cregger, who is helming the new reboot movie based on the beloved video game series, took the stage at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas on Monday to debut the first look at the gnarly zombie project.
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Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 14 Apr. 2026
One user soundtracked a video of their homemade shrimp alfredo turning a gnarly brown shade.
—Luke Chinman, PEOPLE, 8 Apr. 2026
The pressurizing defense forced the Vandals into gnarly 29/20 percent shooting splits.
—Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2026
Even as the sport tilts further toward the much-wealthier programs, locals here still choose to endure gnarly traffic and crowd onto State’s hilltop campus to watch Mountain West Conference men’s competition.
—Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Mar. 2026
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Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 14 Apr. 2026
One user soundtracked a video of their homemade shrimp alfredo turning a gnarly brown shade.
—Luke Chinman, PEOPLE, 8 Apr. 2026
The pressurizing defense forced the Vandals into gnarly 29/20 percent shooting splits.
—Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2026
Even as the sport tilts further toward the much-wealthier programs, locals here still choose to endure gnarly traffic and crowd onto State’s hilltop campus to watch Mountain West Conference men’s competition.
—Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gnarly
Adjective
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An ugly first period added to the initial grimness.—
Kalen Lumpkins,
Chicago Tribune,
16 Apr. 2026
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Their pricey homegrown core — Paolo Banchero, Franz Wagner and Jalen Suggs — combined to go 13-of-42 from the field and an ugly 1-of-13 from deep.—
Mike Bianchi,
The Orlando Sentinel,
16 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Car launches are generally ghastly events, and this was way down there with the most hideous… and perhaps gave a clue as to why VW struggles to match its huge European sales success in America.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
10 Apr. 2026
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The hideous prospect of interviewing for jobs even more pointless than this one appears before me.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
8 Apr. 2026
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This was in itself disgusting but also came to represent the city’s problems.—
Rachel Sugar,
Curbed,
8 Apr. 2026
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Living under an openly misogynistic president may have felt freakish in 2017, but by his second term, bigotry became yet another disgusting norm.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
2 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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After a hellish July 4th, most of the remaining day shift make their way to the roof.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
17 Apr. 2026
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Right around that time, the Venice Film Festival saw Mamoru Hosoda’s anime epic Scarlet, in which the Danish prince became an ass-kicking Danish princess consigned to a hellish and phantasmagoric underworld.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
14 Apr. 2026
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Most of Becket’s relatives are loathsome (Grace is funny as a fraudulent self-help quasi-religious guru), though his uncle (the great Bill Camp) is a decent fellow who wants to lend Becket a hand.—
Bill Goodykoontz,
AZCentral.com,
18 Feb. 2026
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In the show’s first episode, Jaquel Spivey, who starred in the Broadway production of A Strange Loop, a musical about the experience of being a self-hating fat gay Black man, is introduced as a loathsome incel.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
4 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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The horrid image in the news of a column of smoke rising above the city of Tehran — an abyss of darkness against the gray sky — arrests my attention.—
Babak Rahimi,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
14 Apr. 2026
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Within six more days a horrid newspaper man learned the story.—
Eric Mandel,
AJC.com,
13 Apr. 2026
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Three of this beastly bunch were checked off during our six spectacular hours in Tsavo.—
David Dickstein,
Oc Register,
18 Mar. 2026
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An American Werewolf in London' (1981) American dudes backpacking in England get attacked by a werewolf, one of them becomes a beastly nuisance on the full moon, and things get bloody freaky in old London Town.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
13 Feb. 2026
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While Kirk was praised by conservatives as a champion of free speech, he was also criticized for comments that many other Americans found hateful toward LGBTQ+ communities, non-Christians, people of color and women.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
15 Apr. 2026
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Sheikali's case In March 2025, Sheikali's phone flooded with hateful messages.—
Mikayla Price,
CBS News,
13 Apr. 2026
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“Gnarly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gnarly. Accessed 22 Apr. 2026.
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