grimness
严峻性,狰狞,严酷性,阴暗面
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grim·mer, grim·mest.
- : stern and admitting of no appeasement or compromise: grim determination; grim necessity.
- : of a sinister or ghastly character: a grim joke.
- : having a harsh, surly, forbidding, or morbid air: a grim man but a just one; a grim countenance.
- : fierce, savage, or cruel: War is a grim business.
- : unpleasant or repellant: Scrubbing toilets is a grim task that no one likes doing.
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Examples
Prudence suggests that merchants should brace for an even grimmer spring 2021 than the academic calendars suggest.
Three out of 10 hotel employees in the country remain furloughed or laid off, according to the American Hotel and Lodging Association, putting hotel workers in the grim company of airline and restaurant employees.
If this week’s grim third-quarter earnings reports from both Visa and Mastercard are anything to go by — as reported by the Financial Times — the future isn’t bright.
The historical foundation of “The Cold Millions” offers a grim lesson in the endless struggle for better working conditions.
As grim as things are in Wisconsin today, the truth is that Covid-19 isn’t unstoppable.
The whole process could have been a joyful PR interlude, replacing the current grind of grimness.
This longing for grimness actually has its own portmanteau word, ostalgie.
Hilda stabbed a great crisp fallen teak leaf with her parasol, and spent the grimness of this in twirling it.
Please observe Wiseman and Wishart; for incidental grimness, they strike me as in it.
No doubt this grimness of Crozier was due to domestic trouble and not wholly to his own presence.
"With our last cent," came the answer of the other man, and in the voice was grimness and enthusiasm.
But even from its grimness emanated the same faint, mysterious odor of cinnamon roses that lurked in the accompanying letter.