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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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for grimness
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The species is the largest member of the mustelid family, which includes otters, weasels and badgers, and is known for its ferocity and elusive nature.—
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This ferocity is what needs to be preserved when the stadium is eventually updated.—
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The American people must reject this cruelty and extremism.—
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Does their lack of kindness grant you permission to respond with equal insensitivity or even cruelty?—
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Its savagery was all the more disturbing knowing what a compassionate, effective man Rob Reiner was in life and work.—
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Then came the October 7, 2023, savagery by Hamas that took the lives of more than 1,200 innocent Jews—40 years after the attack on America’s troops in Beirut.—
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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.—
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His mother bequeathed to him her fierceness.—
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Newsom’s allies attribute much of this to the governor’s fierceness in the redistricting efforts.—
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For some residents, Good’s killing reopened deep wounds in a city still reckoning with the police murder of George Floyd, which occurred just blocks away in May 2020 and sparked nationwide protests against police brutality.—
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Captured on video, the incident would bring national tensions over police brutality to a head, igniting months of demonstrations around the country.—
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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.—
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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.—
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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.—
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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.—
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“Grimness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grimness. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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