Meanings (ES + gloss)
lóbrego • lúgubre • siniestro • sombrío
Dismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding.
Developments were markedly different in the Soviet zone, but ultimately ended in perhaps an even grimmer dead end: that of SED leader Walter Ulbricht’s thoroughly Stalinized German…
Life was grim in many northern industrial towns.
rígido
Rigid and unrelenting.
His grim determination enabled him to win.
siniestro
Ghastly or sinister.
A grim castle overshadowed the village.
There was, I thought, a trace of very profound and very genuine irony in the timbre—not the flashy, meaninglessly jaunty pseudo-irony of the callow "sophisticate," which Derby had…
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