What's the difference between grisly and gruesome?

Grisly


Definition:

  • (a.) Frightful; horrible; dreadful; harsh; as, grisly locks; a grisly specter.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) She responded with Mrs Schofield's GCSE , which heaped up all the grisly murders in Shakespeare.
  • (2) The tobacco giant Philip Morris has launched legal action against the Australian government over the country's plans to strip company logos from cigarette packages and replace them with grisly images of cancerous mouths, sickly children and bulging, blinded eyes.
  • (3) The grisly conditions facing UK retailers were underlined when DSG, which operates Currys and PC World , revealed a big drop in sales of TVs and computers.
  • (4) Reports of the grisly death of Drummer Lee Rigby on the streets of London first reached David Cameron as he travelled with François Hollande from an EU summit in Brussels to Paris.
  • (5) House of Cards' fictional portrayal of the grisly, dark side of US politics has also proved to be a winner at the White House.
  • (6) Similarly, when addressing a jury, prosecutors often emphasize the most grisly part of a murder to ensure a speedy conviction.
  • (7) Yet grisly pictures on Xinhua's website show a shirtless man covered in purple splotches lying on a hospital bed, his left arm awkwardly splayed across his chest.
  • (8) Demonstrators chanted “We are not folding up our umbrellas” in a reference to the wave of protests earlier this month when tens of thousands of Poles gathered in grisly weather to challenge a proposed blanket ban on abortion, forcing Poland’s ruling Law and Justice party (PiS) to throw out the proposals.
  • (9) If the Labour party doesn’t rid itself of its morbid symptoms and start to convince the public it is interested in government, then we could see something else Gramsci was familiar with: the grisly spectre of Conservative hegemony.
  • (10) It is a grisly conclusion to Harris's immensely long and hugely successful career, which began when he arrived in London from Perth in 1952 switching from art to cabaret and then children's TV.
  • (11) Months of brutal repression that included mass round-ups, a succession of show trials, lengthy prison sentences and grisly executions has emasculated the Green movement.
  • (12) Any police force would be shaken by the sight, but the grisly tableau's arrangement seemed designed to instill terror in young officers from parts of southern Mexico where superstition and belief in sorcery are common.
  • (13) Partisan or biased as some of this grisly account-keeping may be, it has the virtue of keeping alive the idea that justice may eventually be done and that, when that time comes, there will be evidence available that will enable it to be done.
  • (14) The peculiar speech even begins to feel almost comical, in a dark way, as the subject matter becomes more grisly.
  • (15) Teenagers thought Al Pacino in Scarface and the cast of Reservoir Dogs were cool, despite their grisly fates.
  • (16) At newsstands, headlines cry out details of the previous day's grisly crimes.
  • (17) These grisly events are not occurring on the tourist beaches of Spain’s Costa del Sol, the French Riviera or the sheltered resorts of southern Turkey so beloved of well-to-do European holidaymakers.
  • (18) They routinely disseminate grisly execution videos over social media, intending to terrorise their rivals and the nation at large.
  • (19) Last month the creators of the game Hitman drew widespread criticism for a grisly promotional trailer that showed the main (male) character slaughtering a group of S&M killer nuns.
  • (20) Choi's post includes all of the grisly details that made their way into the American press: Jang and five of his aides were stripped naked, thrown into a giant cage, and "entirely devoured" by 120 Manchurian hunting dogs that had been starved for three days.

Gruesome


Definition:

  • (a.) Ugly; frightful.
  • (a.) Same as Grewsome.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Brand names would instead be printed in small type and feature large health warnings and gruesome, full-colour images of the consequences of smoking.
  • (2) And it is getting worse every day.” He shows a gruesome image from his Facebook page on his phone showing a Kurdish fighter being beheaded by Isis jihadis.
  • (3) On 20 August, the day after IS released its gruesome video, for every 95 searches for “google” there were 11 for “james foley”, and two for “james foley video”.
  • (4) If the scoreline has a pleasing symmetry, the tennis was gruesome to watch – at least from the Luxembourg bench, where their coach, the human rights lawyer on his holidays, Jacques Radoux, looked as if he had just been asked to defend Rebekah Brooks.
  • (5) But recent events, especially the murder of Boris Nemtsov in Moscow, have led to renewed debate over whether the Kremlin’s political control over the region, won back after two gruesome wars in the post-Soviet years, may be loosening.
  • (6) This is in stark comparison to the gruesome, vicious suffering that he inflicted on his two victims – and the lifetime of suffering he has caused their family.” Wood was executed for shooting to death Debra Dietz, his former girlfriend, and her father, Eugene Dietz, in Tucson in 1989.
  • (7) There is now less of a chance of a back-to-back cut next month, unless there is some particularly gruesome economic data over the next couple of weeks.
  • (8) Some 558 rhino have been killed in South Africa already this year, setting the country on course for a gruesome new record number of poaching deaths, wildlife officials said on Thursday.
  • (9) Now, with the gruesome killing of Farooq, a senior if largely colourless figure, the bloodshed appears to have spread from Pakistan to the streets of north London.
  • (10) While the beheading of hostages from the US, Britain and Japan drew condemnation from most religious sects within Islam , the gruesome images of the airman’s murder served as a unifying battlecry for Muslims across the world.
  • (11) Nor do banks that have lent trillions that will never be repaid post gruesome videos.
  • (12) Day 9: 13 March 2014 Gruesome images of Steenkamp shortly after her death were inadvertently shown to the packed courtroom , causing Pistorius to vomit and horrifying her supporters in the public gallery.
  • (13) In the final gruesome hours of waiting, the American judicial system at its very highest echelons was involved – including the US supreme court, which issued the decisive final ruling.
  • (14) In that case the prisoner took 43 minutes to die in a gruesome spectacle denounced by Barack Obama as “deeply troubling”.
  • (15) Then, in a gesture that seemed to echo Oklahoma’s fierce commitment to secrecy in the way it carries out lethal injections, the curtains were drawn over the execution chamber, obscuring the gruesome spectacle from public view.
  • (16) Speaking a week after his youngest brother, Jaffar, 17 , was killed storming a Syrian government checkpoint, Deghayes said: “I cant afford to leave jihad and the journey to jannah [paradise].” Jaffar is the youngest known Briton to have died during the gruesome three-year conflict.
  • (17) That gruesome threshold was also crossed in August, so that these became the bloodiest months in the city's history, escalating the tally for 2009 to more than 1,800.
  • (18) While local emergency services performed gruesome cleanup feats in difficult conditions, there was little coordination or oversight of the work and on occasions bodies and possessions were seen being thrown into unmarked vehicles.
  • (19) During the 2010 election, David Cameron travelled the country issuing what he hoped were blood-freezing warnings that a hung parliament would be the most gruesome catastrophe to engulf Britain since the Black Death.
  • (20) Some 25,000 residents – 10% of his constituents – have been displaced, and nearly 2,000 killed, with gruesome reminders of the tragedy becoming ever more apparent every day: this week a second mass burial site was dug to accommodate the growing number of corpses found washed ashore or from the mounds of debris that line the city's streets and canals.