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grislier

a. (en-comparative of: grisly)

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grislier

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grisly
  1. adj. shockingly repellent; inspiring horror; "ghastly wounds"; "the grim aftermath of the bombing"; "the grim task of burying the victims"; "a grisly murder"; "gruesome evidence of human sacrifice"; "macabre tales of war and plague in the Middle ages"; "macabre tortures conceived by madmen" [syn: ghastly, grim, gruesome, macabre]

  2. [also: grisliest, grislier]

Usage examples of "grislier".

Though most of the grislier reminders of that retreat had rotted away over the years, still did odd artifacts crop up now and thena skull of horse or man here, part of a rusty, broken blade there, a scattering of round stone balls for an old-fashioned perrier-cannon scattered among roadside weeds, a verdigrised copper hoop still encircling the smashed and rotten staves of a powder keg in the mud of a watery ditch.

The effect was even grislier than the previous picture and, in ways, even more puzzling.