grim

Before the result was announced, a former Labour MP texted to say - in colourful language – just how grim the political landscape was in the North East.

Having already endured a tough set of results overnight, they are braced for more grim news later in their former rural heartlands where the Liberal Democrats smell blood.

There's a grim vibe to the undertaking, as if they're trying to pound your head into the ground with the excess.

His grim work handling dead sheep gives the movie its title, but little time is actually spent at Stan’s job.

Chris used to have a grim, distinctive tic of executing his enemies in the head; now, the climactic battle is just a spray of bullets.