词汇释义
grisly TEM8 GRE
UK /ˈɡrɪz.li/ US /ˈɡrɪz.li/
adj, Something that is grisly is extremely unpleasant, and usually involves death and violence. 令人极度厌恶的，恐怖的，可怕的
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外刊例句
1. It’s one of the worst rates in the nation; a grisly illustration of the cost of reopening the economy without containing the coronavirus.(Washington Post)
2. The 21-year-old personal assistant of Fahim Saleh was arrested Friday in the grisly slaying of the tech investor, an attack police said appeared to be tied to the theft of tens of thousands of dollars.(Washington Post)
3. His grisly serial killings of seven European and Australian backpackers horrified Australia in the early ’90s.(Seattle Times)
4. The episode drew dark similarities to the Christchurch massacre in March, when a gunman used Facebook to live-stream a grisly attack on two mosques that left 51 people dead.(Seattle Times)
5. The images she labeled were grisly, but not as grisly as others handled at iMerit.(New York Times)
6. A panel of judges sided with tobacco companies and ruled that the agency couldn’t force cigarettes to carry grisly images, including cadavers, diseased lungs and cancerous mouth sores.(Seattle Times)
7. Workers who fully commit to Epic — who survive the long hours and grisly sights — are treated to a remarkable perk.(New York Times)
8. And his lineups reflected his traditionalist’s notion of what audiences wanted, with Mr. Moonves seeing to it that even the shows centered on grisly murders were not too dark.(New York Times)
9. McCarthy’s movie features the comedian as a human detective who teams with a puppet partner to investigate grisly puppet murders.(Seattle Times)
10. Right-wing Hindu groups employed WhatsApp to spread a grisly video that was described as an attack on a Hindu woman by a Muslim mob but was in fact a lynching in Guatemala.(New York Times)
11. And they don’t need to hear every grisly detail of your divorce or whom you voted for in the last election.(Seattle Times)
12. About two weeks after a grisly shooting in a Pittsburgh suburb, Wendy Bell, a local news anchor for WTAE-TV, wrote a public Facebook post that focused in part on finding hope and offering kindness.(New York Times)
词汇搭配
grisly death, detail, discovery, murder, scene
词汇家族
grisliness
词汇来源
Old English grislic (in compounds) "horrible, dreadful," from root of grisan "to shudder, fear," a general Germanic word (cognates: Old Frisian grislik "horrible," Middle Dutch grisen "to shudder," Dutch griezelen, German grausen "to shudder, fear," Old High German grisenlik "horrible;" of unknown origin; Watkins connects it with the PIE root *ghrei- "to rub," on notion of "to grate on the mind." See also gruesome, to which it probably is connected in some way.
近义词
appalling, atrocious, awful, dreadful, frightful, ghastly, gruesome (also grewsome), hideous, horrendous, horrible, horrid, horrific, horrifying, lurid, macabre, monstrous, nightmare, nightmarish, shocking, terrible, terrific
反义词
agreeable, appealing, attractive, delectable, delicious, delightful, enjoyable, enticing, inviting, pleasant, pleasing, pleasurable, satisfying, welcome,cheering, comforting, soothing
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