variants
also grewsome
as in horrific
extremely disturbing or repellent
didn't stick around to hear the gruesome details of the car accident
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Options like Call of Cthulhu and Delta Green allows players to investigate strange mysteries, encounter horrific scenes and wrestle with their own sanity.Rob Wieland, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024
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What followed was two months of horrific treatment.Fox News Staff, Fox News, 25 Oct. 2024
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Give Back To Maui After the horrible 2023 wildfires in Maui, The Ritz-Carlton, Kapalua reopened on October 8, 2023, and it’s been going strong and welcoming guests with open arms since then.Robin Raven, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
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This is also a great matchup against a horrible Jaguars passing defense.David Faris, Newsweek, 3 Nov. 2024
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This statistic is downright shocking as, anecdotally speaking, the men's hair in Spain appears particularly full and lush at glance—noticeably more so than in the United States, France or Italy.Jessica Ourisman, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024
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Scandal is up there with the most shocking, unpredictable network dramas of all time, but the death of Dan Bucatinsky's James Novak gave shock a whole new meaning.Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 22 Oct. 2024
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That came about in the family’s own dynamic in recovering from this terrible thing that had happened to them as a group.Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Oct. 2024
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Marissa and Ramses went from a sure thing to a terrible breakup in the last batch of Love is Blind episodes.Lissete Lanuza Sáenz, StyleCaster, 24 Oct. 2024
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Why has simply being awake in a comfortable bed become such an awful situation?Korin Miller, Health, 1 Nov. 2024
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While the Panthers have been objectively awful nearly every week this season, New Orleans has not been much better since its surprising 2-0 start.Marco Rubio, Newsweek, 1 Nov. 2024
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With so much focus on AI and data, the most frightening thing to me is people exclusively depending on KPIs and data analysis to make decisions that impact people.Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 31 Oct. 2024
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Not after a season of off-field adversity, including his 3-year-old son Max’s battle with a frightening case of Guillain-Barré syndrome in August, briefly leaving him paralyzed.Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2024
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