Grim

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Anyone else sick of seeing this word. So embarrassingly overused by posters thinking they are edgy.

Edgy? I'm not remotely edgy. It's just a word I use.

Doesn't bother me. I tend to use it more to describe low light, as in 'Stick the light on. It's getting a bit grim in here'. Or if the weather's dull and miserable - 'it's a grim day'.

Vile is worse. I hate vile.

@TooBigForMyBoots it is isn't it? It's commonly used round here, someone used it earlier in the pub to describe our local high street 😬it's fitting!

Grim is just a normal word to me but I hate vile so much. A woman used it on TV recently and my first thought was "I bet she's on mumsnet"

I use it a lot, usually about male behaviour and sometimes hygiene stuff. It describes it perfectly 🤷🏻‍♀️

No way! I like it. Do you prefer dismal? Dire?

If someone on here describes something as grim, rank or vile it’s usually a fairly safe bet that their opinion can be ignored.

😂
Foul
Gross
Ewww
Yuck
Icky
Depressing

I'll stick to grim. Thank you!

It’s just a very casual way to express distaste I suppose.

‘Precious’ is obviously the real offender!

My favourite descriptive is 'hideous'. I'm likely to use it where other people use 'grim'.

I'm with the posters who don't like 'vile'. Most overused word since 'narcissist'.

Mumsnet lingo that immediately springs to mind: 'judgy' or 'goady'. I've never encountered either of these two terms outside this site.

'Grim' is just a word.

Love Hideous. But it has a different feel to it than "grim".

Hideous is instinctive, recoilingly awful and ugly. Whereas "Grim" is a slowly creeping, seeping unpleasantness.

Add to that " exhausted" and " broken".

Egdy? 😂

This! I don't live in the UK and it isn't used here the way it is on MN to describe something a little unsavoury or not to your taste. I shudder every time I read it used for those reasons.

Love this explanation. I only ever see 'grim' used on here.

'Vile' annoys me more.

Is it not the middle class equivalent of "disgusting"?

Not in my opinion. I think that’s part of the issue, people are using it incorrectly. Saying that somebody not showering twice a day is ‘grim’ doesn’t make sense to me because that isn’t really the correct use of that word. So it isn’t so much that I hate the word, more that I’m fed up of seeing it used for such stupid things. Eating Rice Krispies isn’t ‘grim.’

I’ve a friend who I think misuses it. To me it’s associated with something that is dirty, run down, unattractive. But my friend uses it to describe behaviour

I know! I can't resist using it interchangeably though: personal idiom if not entirely grammatically correct. In my defence I don't use dangling modifiers 😀