gruesomenesses
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Noun edit
gruesomenesses
- plural of gruesomeness
- 1948, Alan Reynolds Thompson, The Dry Mock: A Study of Irony in Drama, page 184:
- That Euripides' taste ran often to such gruesomenesses is indicated by the plots of some of his lost tragedies.
- 1963, Norman Macrae, Sunshades in October, page 50:
- Some aspects of its gruesomenesses — reputedly including a cut in family allowances — proved too Bumble-like for the cabinet to swallow
- 2003, Michael Hofmann, “The Cartel”, in The Collected Stories of Joseph Roth[1], translation of original by Joseph Roth, published 1923, page 74:
- He did an express service in murders and assaults, specializing in hacked-up bodies and other gruesomenesses