grewsome

English

Adjective

grewsome (comparative more grewsome, superlative most 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.
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