gruesome

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• look: In fact, it could look a bit gruesome and icky.
• see: Never in all my years would I expect to have seen anything so horribly gruesome; all the blood, the carnage.

Modifies a noun

• twosome: A stall sells T-shirts with the slogan " Keep Scotland tidy, bin the gruesome twosome.
• murder: He quickly read the articles describing the gruesome murder of a young mother.
• killing: Over a half-century later, a rookie cop connects Short's murder to a series of gruesome present-day killings.
• fate: It also reveals the gruesome fate of unwanted male calves -- every year up to 200,000 are shot in the head just hours afterbirth.
• tale: I was nearing the climax of the most gruesome tale in my repertoire.
• spectacle: I stayed on at the main stage to witness one of the more gruesome spectacles of the festival.

Modifying Another Word

• rather: They leave their skin cases behind, which look rather gruesome still clinging, lifeless, to the iris leaves.
• particularly: In the first series, the episode on the training day where Brent goes home to get his guitar is particularly gruesome.
• pretty: They are home to a vast selection of pretty gruesome independent horror movies.
• fairly: The details of Husayn's actual death are fairly gruesome.
• quite: Later books in the series are much darker and she kills off some characters in quite gruesome ways.
• sometimes: We present the sometimes gruesome facts of this murky, convoluted international legal quagmire.

Used with adjective complement

• justify: If you become offended by anything, please read An Attempt to Justify Gruesome Bible Passages.
• look: They leave their skin cases behind, which look rather gruesome still clinging, lifeless, to the iris leaves.
• sound: In medical terms the description of a hangover sounds even more gruesome.
• get: Customer Rating: Review Summary: It starts off fine enough, but gets gruesome fast... .

Preposition: in

• part: Don't take your kids to see it tho because it is quite scary and gruesome in parts.

Preposition: of

• scene: Scenes will range from thefts from motor vehicles to the most complex and gruesome of murder scenes.