Gruesome

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  • adjective. Causing horror and repugnance; frightful and shocking: synonym: ghastly.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Causing one to shudder; frightfully dismal or depressing; horribly repulsive.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Ugly; frightful. Same as grewsome.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. repellently frightful and shocking; horrific or ghastly
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. shockingly repellent; inspiring horror
  • Word Usage
    "Some Muslims have been sceptical of bin Laden's death, especially as the United States has said it will not release what it called gruesome images of his corpse for fear of inciting more violence."