What's the difference between gruesome and terrible?

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.

Terrible


Definition:

  • (a.) Adapted or likely to excite terror, awe, or dread; dreadful; formidable.
  • (a.) Excessive; extreme; severe.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Another five years of Tory rule with all the terrible consequences that will have is bad enough.
  • (2) The talk coming from senior Tories – at least some of whom have the grace to squirm when questioned on this topic – suggesting that it's all terribly complicated, that it was a long time ago and that even SS members were, in some ways, themselves victims, is uncomfortably close to the kind of prattle we used to hear from those we called Holocaust revisionists.
  • (3) Criminal court charges leave me no choice but to resign as a magistrate Read more “This is a terrible piece of legislation introduced through the back door,” he wrote.
  • (4) Former acting director of the CIA, Michael Morell, also weighed in for Clinton in a New York Times opinion piece on Friday, declaring: “Donald J Trump is not only unqualified for the job, but he may well pose a threat to our national security.” Republicans stumbling from the wreckage of a terrible week are worrying about how to contain the damage further down the ballot paper in November as people running for seats in Congress and at state level risk being swept away.
  • (5) We have to balance the risk posed to the environment by DDT with the terrible impact this virus is having on the unborn.” Britain is unlikely to be affected because Aedes aegypti cannot survive the cold of UK winters.
  • (6) (“The Dynasty of Bush” sounds like a terribly disparaging term for Linda Evans, Kate O’Mara and Joan Collins .
  • (7) I myself spent years – years – in a terrible kind of politically correct phase where I travelled to Nicaragua and called it “Niquragua” to observe the Sandinista revolution firsthand.
  • (8) If neighbouring Arab states put pressure on the rebel groups, the result could be a ceasefire and an end to the terrible violence.
  • (9) There were signs of encouragement early in the second half from Sunderland, and they should have pulled one back only for a terrible call from the assistant referee Eddie Smart.
  • (10) One of the terrible ironies of the Iraq War is that President Bush used the threat of nuclear terrorism to invade a country that had no active nuclear program.
  • (11) A new, terrible curse that comes on top of the bleaching, the battering, the poisoning and the pollution.
  • (12) Read more The agreement earned a mixed initial reception, with the UN hailing a “bold” and “groundbreaking” outcome even as other delegates complained of “a terrible precedent” and lack of moral leadership.
  • (13) The fact that they failed to do so is beyond terrible – it’s unconscionable.” Lichter Immigration, where Cintron works, has filed multiple state bar complaints against Taylor Lee & Associates on behalf of five women, including Lourdes Chavez Ramirez.
  • (14) Cattle are excellent converters of grass but terrible converters of concentrated feed.
  • (15) ​The experience of his wife's prolonged and terrible illness had not changed his mind, Inge said, but had made him understand, "at a heart and gut level" what the implications of a law on assisted suicide would be.
  • (16) This time he looked like a nodding dog in the back of a car that's been in a terrible crash.
  • (17) Michaels' Ms brainwave did not take root as quickly as she hoped - "It was terribly frustrating, because no one wanted to hear about it.
  • (18) I cracked a few jokes because I thought we had been through such a terrible event we need to laugh.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest A man lays flowers outside the synagogue in Copenhagen after two deadly shootings.
  • (19) Above all, MPs should vote to stop needless misery for families afflicted by this rare but terrible disorder.
  • (20) This is a terrible government, and the Tories are deeply divided.