Gruesome or disgusting sights are grisly.
- Nurses and paramedics are likely to encounter grisly sights in their work.
Beards, hair and animal fur flecked with grey are said to be grizzled.
- Tim’s blue eyes sparkled beneath his grizzled thatch of hair.
The bear is a grizzly; the plural is grizzlies.
- The grizzly is native to western Canada.
- When hiking in the Rockies, stay away from grizzly bears (or grizzlies).
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