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# grisly

«grisly» in Mova's school dictionary: **Causing horror and disgust; very gruesome, often with…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (grislier, grisliest)

### meaning for a pupil

Causing horror and disgust; very gruesome, often with death, blood or bones. Do not confuse with «grizzly» (a bear, or grey-haired). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grisly/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

tales describe horrible places, creatures and deaths in a frightening way

### examples

- The grisly giant laughed in the dark. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grisly/#x1)
- The cave held grisly bones. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grisly/#x2)
- The story had a grisly ending that gave us nightmares. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grisly/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «grisly» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grisly/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.