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    Synonyms and Definitions

    Use "grimness" in a sentence

    grimness example sentences

    grimness


    1. “There is still a problem,” I said prolonging the grimness, “I


    2. And as they exchanged silent glances marked with grimness and perhaps even vague alarm, conventional wisdom began to bear new significance


    3. Books watched her, and she feared a mocking comment about her nerves, but only grimness marked his face


    4. A grimness settled over Sespian as he watched


    5. The present, with all its grimness, which had never quite gone away, now pushed all else into the background


    6. The present, with all its grimness, which had never quite gone away, now pushed all else into


    7. There was a grimness to his face and voice that sent a chill down his companions‘ spines


    8. “That is the only option,” said Lezura, adding some grimness in her tone to further cement it


    9. Robert might kill her--Ingram was saying so, she heard that, too; he didn't say kill, he called it ill-using, but whatever it was who cared? She would at least, she thought with a new grimness, be killed legitimately


    10. Laughing, the grimness of the turn’s ride dissipating, “You have made that… for me?”

    11. I hated to see her like that, but there was no avoiding the grimness of the moment


    12. Despite a certain grimness that came with this realization, the ride away from Coldfrock maintained an almost whimsical pleasantness over the first two days of their trip


    13. Lorry hacked the shoemaker's bench to pieces, while Miss Pross held the candle as if she were assisting at a murder--for which, indeed, in her grimness, she was no unsuitable figure


    14. Miss Pross had nothing beautiful about her; years had not tamed the wildness, or softened the grimness, of her appearance; but, she too was a determined woman in her different way, and she measured Madame Defarge with her eyes, every inch


    15. Decoud was surprised at the grimness of his anxiety


    16. And this excess of feeling translated itself naturally into an augmented grimness of speech


    17. 'Did I not openly proclaim my title before the doors of Edoras? What do you fear that I should say to him? Nay, Gimli,' he said in a softer voice, and the grimness left his face, and he looked like one who has laboured in sleepless pain for many nights


    18. For example, in the midst of the grimness of the 2000-2002 dot-com bubble-bursting bear market, a professional portfolio manager was asked on financial cable TV when he thought the brutal bear market would finally come to an end


    19. It wasn’t as if they’d actually found Green Band, but it was something, a sliver of merriment at the heart of the recent grimness, the frustration trailing back for days


    20. But Ahab, my Captain, still moves before me in all his Nantucket grimness and shagginess; and in this episode touching Emperors and Kings, I must not conceal that I have only to do with a poor old whale-hunter like him; and, therefore, all outward majestical trappings and housings are denied me

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    Synonyms for "grimness"

    asperity grimness hardship rigor rigorousness rigour rigourousness severeness severity ghastliness gruesomeness luridness

    "grimness" definitions

    the quality of being ghastly


    something hard to endure