grim

Dismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding.

Life was grim in many northern industrial towns.

Developments were markedly different in the Soviet zone, but ultimately ended in perhaps an even grimmer dead end: that of SED leader Walter Ulbricht’s thoroughly Stalinized German Democratic Republic (GDR).

Rigid and unrelenting.

His grim determination enabled him to win.

Ghastly or sinister.

A grim castle overshadowed the village.

There was, I thought, a trace of very profound and very genuine irony in the timbre—not the flashy, meaninglessly jaunty pseudo-irony of the callow "sophisticate," which Derby had habitually affected, but something grim, basic, pervasive and potentially evil.

Disgusting; gross.

– Wanna see the dead rat I found in my fridge? – Mate, that is grim!

Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; […]

Fierce, cruel, furious.

To make grim; to give a stern or forbidding aspect to.

A promiscuous woman.

You got a new girl and she looks choong (Choong) But you didn't know your girl was a grim […] Your girl she's a grim, I wouldn't have no grim as my ting