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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
gruesome/ˈɡruːsəm/

▶adjective causing repulsion or horror.

■ informal very unpleasant.

– derivatives
gruesomely adverb,
gruesomeness noun.

– origin C16: from Scots grue ‘feel horror, shudder’ (of Scand. origin) + -some1.

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