grim

a grim, rainy day.

a grim and forbidding building.

the grim news of the murder.

the grim actualities of prison life.

the grim advance of the pillaging army.

some moments of grim humour.

we had to hold on like grim death.

this is mostly a grim and honest budget.

Guy smiled a grim smile.

the grim facts behind the facade of gaiety

He held on to the branch like grim death.

the grim task of burying the victims of the earthquake.

long rows of grim, dark housing developments.

a grim goalless draw in appalling weather.

few creatures are able to thrive in this grim and hostile land.

the baby was plucked from a grim orphanage.

a grim portrait of despair against the bright canvas of the postwar economy.