grimness

Noun

Meaning

Fierceness of look; sternness; crabbedness; forbiddingness.

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Examples

No funeral gloom, my dears, when I am gone, corpse-gazing, tears, black raiment, graveyard grimness. Think of me as withdrawn into the dimness, yours still, you mine. Remember all the best of our past moments, and forget the rest; and so to where I wait, come gently on. William Allingham

I find both humor and grimness in most issues. Bill Nye

As a reader, I tend not to get too much from tales of unrelenting grimness. Greg van Eekhout

I can be gloriously stupid, but if it helps to divert peoples attentions from the grimness of life, I'm happy. Rik Mayall

The alternatives with which Freud leaves us are grim only if we view them from the perspective of some past possibility. ... The grimness is relieved by the gaiety of being free from the historic Western compulsion of seeking large and general meanings for small and highly particular lives. Philip Rieff

the asperity of northern winters Source: Internet

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