English

Adjective

grewsome

1. Obsolete spelling of gruesome
   • 1895, Henry Seton Merriman, The Sowers:

     It was rather a grewsome scene.

   • 1900, Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie:

     His voice was hoarse and his unkempt head only added to its grewsome quality.

   • 1909, Cleveland Moffett, chapter 19, in Through the Wall:

     And various grewsome objects, a card case of human skin, and the twisted scarf used by a strangler.

   • 1918, Randall Parrish, Wolves of the Sea:

     I sprang back, giving utterance to a cry, which brought Watkins to me, and the two of us stared at the grewsome object and then about into the wavering shadows.