grim

[Example Sentences]:
1. Every year the tech giants release diversity reports and they make for grim reading.
2. Officials in the terror group issued a grim statement to its fighters that soon all could be lost.
3. All of it added up to a grim outlook.
4. He tells of a grim life removed from his family.
5. The grim news was only the latest for Orlando, a city struck by tragedy in the past few days.
6. I cut into him with grim determination.
7. His inability to stand poses a grim set of logistical complications in his possible execution.
8. It makes one wonder what grim reality spins beneath the surface, pulling everyone down.
9. They miss one appointment, two appointments, and eventually the staff makes a grim assumption.
10. His grim predictions are not widely shared.

[Antonyms]mild, attractive, benign

[Synonyms]fierce, ruthless, cruel