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Definition of Grimmest
1. grim [adj] - See also: grim
Lexicographical Neighbors of Grimmest
Literary usage of Grimmest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1897)
"Crabbe imbeds in perhaps the very grimmest scene of his grimmest tragedy a lyric
that might have been the work of Moore, and renders it effective by ..."
2. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"741. grim (grim), a. ; compar. grimmer, superl. grimmest. ... It would . . .
be the grimmest dispensation that ever Wise Cornelius promised, by his art, ..."
3. That Human Being, Leonard Wood by Hermann Hagedorn (1920)
"At its grimmest—and it is generally at its grimmest facing the camera—the mask
is something to frighten babies with, and to horrify the dyspeptic with ..."
4. The Ingoldsby Legends, Or, Mirth and Marvels by Thomas Ingoldsby (1879)
"... The grimmest of lads with the grimmest of grins, Says, ' Gentlemen, please to
take care of your shins Who ventures this road need be firm on his pins ! ..."
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