Grim, grim, grim. Everything's grim.

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The overuse of this word is, grim!

Ok then. Everything's shite if you prefer.

I use it a lot I'm afraid!
It doesn't offend anyone : so I thought!

It's just annoying me because I see it everywhere and I'm in a grim mood

I use it too. It's a great word. Sharp and to the point!

It's fucking cuntish, that's for sure!

January is always grim. Horrible month.

Only the fucking Reaper can justly claim to be grim. Gavel.
Don't get me started on lush [homicidal].

I like the revival of grim, it's like babies being called Alfred or Mabel.

Grim is a wonderful word when used in its correct context and not in the manner that some teenage girls use it, "eww that's so grim" when talking about something they find disgusting.

grim
adjective
very serious or gloomy
"his grim expression"

I even heard it on BBC news the other day!

DD is always announcing things are grim, she says it to mean disgusting or dirty.

To me it means gloomy or miserable.

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Along with screamed/screaming and vile. People don't scream (unless they are children outside my bedroom window) they shout, or yell, except when being attacked.

I like grim though.

I've never heard anyone in real life use the word grim as a descriptor, I think I'd spit out my tea if they did.

I overuse "vile". Might switch to grim.

Thanks, OP.

Don't use it myself,

Everything is fucking grim, vile, cuntish, shite, bollocks and wank right now though, innit?

You could use the root abstract noun, OP.

"There's so much grimness about".

It sounds clunky though, doesn't it?

I've been using "glum" a lot. DH said it makes me sound like Gollum.

I always use the word ‘grim’ and will continue to do so.

Everything is grim, it's exactly the right word for now. If things weren't grim it would be used less!

Or when people say they're "howling" or "screaming" or "dying" when they apparently find something funny. Usually its something that really isn't that funny. Usually it's a teenager or a chav.

Along with screamed/screaming and vile.

Yes! On MN people are always being screamed and shrieked at.
To me that's what people do on roller coasters or being chased by the baddie in a horror film. Not because someone is annoyed about how someone's parked or because they haven't got a mask on.

'Dire' has had a revival too. Sign of the times.

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Or when people say they're "howling" or "screaming" or "dying" when they apparently find something funny. Usually its something that really isn't that funny. Usually it's a teenager or a chav.

I thought this lockdown was all about the 'shaking and crying'.