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Recent Examples of grimness
Happily, there are pleasures that precede this grimness.
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Helen Shaw, New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2025
Even in the grimness of war, the photographer manages to find beauty in his subjects.
—Hikmat Mohammed, Footwear News, 20 Oct. 2025
Helen Shaw, New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2025
Even in the grimness of war, the photographer manages to find beauty in his subjects.
—Hikmat Mohammed, Footwear News, 20 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for grimness
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Gates has a preternatural knack for cloaking vulnerability in ferocity, being relatable and aspirational all in one.—
Hattie Lindert,
Pitchfork,
23 Jan. 2026
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Yet Auburn still plays with the ferocity and pace Bruce Pearl instilled in his teams during his 31 seasons as a head coach.—
Edgar Thompson,
The Orlando Sentinel,
23 Jan. 2026
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The Burlington County Prosecutor’s Office announced Monday that Hunter Roy will serve six years behind bars after pleading guilty to cruelty to animals and endangering the welfare of a child.—
Brian Niemietz,
New York Daily News,
26 Jan. 2026
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There was an implicit cruelty behind the exercise.—
Vinson Cunningham,
New Yorker,
24 Jan. 2026
Noun
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O’Connell is terrific, but both his character and his performance are badly served by the prolonged savagery of certain scenes.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
Time,
14 Jan. 2026
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Cash hasn’t so much tamed the savagery of the internet as turned on parental controls.—
Gideon Leek,
The Atlantic,
13 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Here, sea level rise is accelerating at some of the most extreme rates on Earth, while hurricanes increasingly are swirling ashore with an unprecedented ferociousness.—
Amy Green,
Miami Herald,
9 Jan. 2026
Noun
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His mother bequeathed to him her fierceness.—
Marcus Thompson II,
New York Times,
7 Jan. 2026
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Newsom’s allies attribute much of this to the governor’s fierceness in the redistricting efforts.—
Amie Parnes,
The Hill,
10 Dec. 2025
Noun
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The relentless flow of appalling events eventually overloads the nervous system; the rising tide of brutality, which once seemed shocking, comes to seem unremarkable.—
David Brooks,
Mercury News,
24 Jan. 2026
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For Hasan as well, this round of unrest felt different, reflecting both the brutality of an increasingly paranoid regime and a new level of public anger and appetite for confrontation.—
Sarah Dean,
CNN Money,
23 Jan. 2026
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The series begins before Gein has ever killed, in 1945, as dawning awareness of death camps in Europe fills the air with sadism and conspiracy thinking.—
Daniel D'Addario,
Variety,
30 Sep. 2025
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The invading parasite is a culture of hate and paranoia and sadism — mass hysteria as sanctioned by the government that is supposed to protect you.—
Rachel Raposas,
PEOPLE,
29 Sep. 2025
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Short’s personality and complexity, attributes long discarded as her life became bastardized, stand in stark contrast to the inhumanity of her death.—
Nathan Smith,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Jan. 2026
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In the world of The Bone Temple, the infected are no longer the greatest threat to survival; the inhumanity of the survivors can be stranger and more terrifying.—
Robert Lang,
Deadline,
27 Dec. 2025
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“Grimness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grimness. Accessed 31 Jan. 2026.
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