(Compar.) Of forbidding or fear-inspiring aspect; fierce; stern; surly; cruel; frightful; horrible.
Example Sentences:
(1) This is the grim Fury on a rainy winter morning in Cannes.
(2) The level of prescribing of opioid painkillers – Percocet in Geni’s case – has soared, and with it the incidence of addiction, and addiction’s grim best friend: fatal overdoses.
(3) Patients with anti-NC1 antibodies were characterised by linear immune deposits along the glomerular basement membrane and the clinical outcome was invariably grim.
(4) The Mail branded the deal "a grim day for all who value freedom" and, like the Times, accused David Cameron of crossing the Rubicon and threatening press freedom for the first time since newspapers were licensed in the 17th century.
(5) ARD TV showing grim-faced FDP cadres: could this be the first time they fall out of national parliament in 60 years?
(6) It has said a better productivity performance and rising North Sea oil revenues will make the budgetary position less grim.
(7) Shields accepted that the Irish appeared more inclined to send up their grim fiscal situation than go out and riot.
(8) Inside the Islamic State ‘capital’: no end in sight to its grim rule Read more The Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) militia and an alliance of rebels known as the “Euphrates Volcano” – backed US-led coalition air strikes – have seized swaths of territory from Isis, including the strategic border town of Tal Abyad .
(9) Yet, if that flurry of form pepped optimism, the injuries and displays in recent friendlies have provided a grim reality check.
(10) The dark, luxury air in the silent bedrooms of empty riverside apartments, their identical curving blocks clustered in threes and fours, grim and silent as gill slits, will be theirs.
(11) Chinese media and bloggers published images of three young children in blue school uniforms lying dead on the pavement – a grim echo of the high casualty rate at poorly constructed schools in Sichuan in 2008, when a bigger quake killed 87,000 people.
(12) The BCC survey represents a turnround from the end of last year, when it was predicting stagflation – a grim combination of zero growth and inflation.
(13) The human rights organisation, which has produced a series of in-depth reports detailing the grim working conditions of many of the 1.5 million migrant labourers engaged in a huge construction boom, said “little has changed in law, policy and practice” since the government promised limited reforms 12 months ago.
(14) Carcinoma of unknown histogenesis or primary site is an increasingly recognized syndrome regarded by most physicians as having a grim prognosis.
(15) "There are times when a swingeing sentence can act as a deterrent", as the judge at the trial was grimly to pronounce.
(16) The footage beamed back from the liberated districts of Ramadi is grim: a ghost town littered with debris and smashed concrete, destroyed storefronts, plumes of smoke, the sound of gunfire piercing the air as Iraqi soldiers speak on camera.
(17) It was my shortcomings as coach that caused this result,” said a grim-faced South Korea manager, Hong Myung-bo, who spent most of the post-match press-conference scratching his nose in apparent distress and deflecting comments about whether he would stay on as manager until next year’s Asian Cup.
(18) After grim news on the recession, at least one thing should become clearer: going back to where we were is no longer an option.
(19) While deplorable and to a degree self-defeating, this insouciant defiance also makes a grim kind of sense, both historically and reinforced by recent events.
(20) The entity carries a grim visual prognosis, as all ten eyes initially had no perception of light; improvement to light perception occurred in one instance.
Unforgiving
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Comic writing can be a brutal, unforgiving business, yet it can produce great and multi-layered prose, combining comedy, pathos and satire.
(2) To somehow use the upcoming 2012 Olympics as a reason to do this is, in my opinion, unforgivably cynical.
(3) Obviously she’s probably felt for years that she was black on the inside and denied it all through her childhood ... since she’s transitioned and identifies herself as black, than we should just let her be and live her life in peace.” Mary Elizabeth Williams, a Salon writer, echoed those who said Dolezal’s alleged fraud was unforgivable.
(4) Hollande described Cahuzac's actions as an "unforgivable moral error".
(5) We had hounded Swales out, in an unforgiving public humiliation, for a childhood hero we believed would make us happy again.
(6) When money is tight, it’s simply unforgiveable to waste taxpayers’ money.
(7) In an escalating legal battle between mostly Republican-controlled states and the Obama administration over voter ID and other election laws, a panel of three judges in Washington DC found that the Texas legislation imposed "strict, unforgiving burdens on the poor" because of the cost and process involved in obtaining identification.
(8) By day, they roamed for miles under the unforgiving sun so they would not be around if the men with machine guns swooped in again.
(9) But as the trip to Scranton neared my emotions became uncontrollable, and the nights were unforgivably restless.
(10) By plotting the percent failing in the 1st year as a function of per cycle failure rates for perfect and imperfect use, it was concluded that the OM is fairly effective if used perfectly, extremely unforgiving of imperfect use, and moderately difficult to use perfectly.
(11) He had committed two unforgiveable crimes: seeking a rigorous inspection of US facilities; and pressing Saddam Hussein to sign the Chemical Weapons Convention, to help prevent the war George Bush was itching to wage.
(12) The independent inquiry into child sexual abuse in Rotherham, which involved the abuse of predominantly white girls by predominantly Pakistani men, even suggested that the unforgivable failure of the Labour council to take action was associated with a reluctance to broach ethnically sensitive issues.
(13) These are unforgiving times for people who want to expose what governments want kept secret.
(14) Moral leader The Daily Mail on the FA's refusal to comment on JT: "Even in the sleazy, venal world of football, Terry's record was unforgivable.
(15) In the Radio Times, the show's producer and director, Steven Moffat, lambasts the corporation's "outright stupidity and unforgivable blindness" in axing the show 24 years ago.
(16) Yet Van Gaal will know they have to be more streetwise to prosper in a competition that can be unforgiving.
(17) The 25-year-old footballer, who was released from prison on Friday having served half of a five-year sentence for raping a woman in a hotel room, told the Sunday Mirror in an interview conducted shortly before he was freed that cheating on his girlfriend was “unforgivable”.
(18) Miliband relented, and Balls took the exam, including clapping rhythmically, in the formal, unforgiving atmosphere music examiners love to generate.
(19) They involved not one error, but a whole chain of errors, and they are all essentially unforgiveable,” he said.
(20) But the pressure from ValueAct and other shareholders could be unforgiving.