gruesome

Etymology

From grue (“to shudder”) + -some. Compare Danish and Norwegian grusom (“horrible”), German grausam (“cruel”), and Dutch gruwzaam (“gruesome; cruel”).

adj

  1. Repellently frightful and shocking; horrific or ghastly.
    Jay Carney said that the US was considering whether to release photos of bin Laden after he was killed on Sunday but that the photos were gruesome and could be inflammatory. 4 May 2011, “Bin Laden was unarmed when shot dead”, in Al Jazeera

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