Blunt and Grim

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Blunt

Blunt adjective - Being or characterized by direct, brief, and potentially rude speech or manner.
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Grim and blunt are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Grim" instead an adjective "Blunt".
Nearby Words: bluntly, blunted, blunting

Grim

Grim adjective - Harsh and threatening in manner or appearance.
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Blunt and grim are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Blunt" instead an adjective "Grim".
Nearby Words: grimy, grimly, grimed

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  • Machinima / Clear Skies The readouts on the Titan are all fairly blunt, grim assesments: "Disaster", "Imminent doom", "Seriously leg it", "You are going to die", "Scary" and the like.
    Source: Machinima / Clear Skies
  • Music / The Downward Spiral There was a song called "Just Do It" that was originally going to be on the album that is particularly upfront and unapologetically blunt about suicide (the only known lyrics are "Just do it / nobody cares at all"), but producer Flood convinced him to leave it off due to being too grim.
    Source: Music / The Downward Spiral
  • Manga / Sangatsu no Lion Imagine Spot: In a grim example of this trope, Rei imagines himself beating his adoptive father to death while Rei's paralleling beating his father in a professional shogi match to a news story of a man murdering his father with blunt force. Yikes.
    Source: Manga / Sangatsu no Lion
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