OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 38926

grisly

/ˈɡɹɪzli/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
espantoso • espeluznante • horripilante • macabro • repugnante
Horrifyingly repellent; gruesome, terrifying.
The photographs of the killings depict a grisly scene.
Then clad in cloake of mistie fogges the darke night vp did come, / And with grim grislie looke did seeme to bid me get me home; […]