1. grisly - Noun
2. grisly - Adjective
3. grisly - Adverb
4. grisly - Adjective Satellite
Frightful; horrible; dreadful; harsh; as, grisly locks; a grisly specter.
Source: Webster's dictionaryDid we not aid the grisly Taliban to achieve and hold power? Yes indeed 'we' did. Well, does that not double or triple our responsibility to remove them from power? Christopher Hitchens
The only time I ever went hunting I remembered it as a grisly experience. Gloria Swanson
Not for naught had he gained access into darksome cults, had harkened to the grisly whispers of the votaries of Skelos under midnight trees, and read the forbidden iron-bound books of Vathelos the Blind. Robert E. Howard
Then, his struggles stopped. His eyes stared at me, stunned, and his lips parted, almost into a smile, albeit a grisly and pained one. "That's what I was supposed to say..." he gasped out. Those were his last words. Richelle Mead
No chronology of Soviet atrocities can convey the crushing of the human spirit under Lenin and his successors. But the retelling of 70 years of grisly facts leaves little doubt that what we face today in Soviet communism is, indeed, an 'evil empire. Michael Johns
It is affluent, upper-middle class students who most spout the party line - as if the grisly hyperemotionalism of feminist jargon satisfies their hunger for meaningful experiences outside their eventless upbringing. In the absence of war, invent one. Camille Paglia