Vocabulary
Grisly
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
causing horror or disgust.
Urdu meaning
خوفناک، ڈراﺅنا، بھیانک
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- Grisly figures Sahil reported 3,364 child abuse cases in 2024 from across the country -show a deeper malaise that feeds on power.
- Two groups representing very different strands of terrorism claimed to have carried out this grisly crime: the Balochistan National/Nationalist Army and Jaish al-Adl.
- These criminal networks prey on desperation, promising safe passage but delivering only exploitation, extortion, and grisly death.
- These criminal networks prey on desperation, promising safe passage but delivering only exploitation, extortion, and grisly death.
- In a similarly grisly episode last October, six construction workers, also from Punjab, were massacred in Turbat while they were asleep.
Synonyms
gruesome, ghastly, frightful, horrid, horrifying, fearful, hideous, macabre,
Antonyms
pleasant, attractive
Curator example
“the town was shaken by a series of grisly crimes”
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