Words similar to gruesome

Example sentences for: gruesome

How can you use “gruesome” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Wilkomirski/Doesseker traffics in the most appalling subset of the most gruesome atrocities known to humankind--the brutal degradation and casual annihilation of uncomprehending children.
(Any 12-year-old could predict the results: educational software gets a "wholesome"; sex and hate sites are "gruesome."
If he was once something of a cult figure in Chicago and, later, in New York City's Greenwich Village, he is no longer of much interest to any reader—except perhaps to some stray dissertation student or to some crime reporter dredging up the gruesome details surrounding his violent death.
The story, coupled with gruesome photos, runs on all fronts.
While this sounds reasonable enough, it overlooks the most gruesome similarity of all: that in the case of Bloom and of Farrow both, it is crippling passivity that brought them to the public eye in the first place and crippling passivity that kept them there.