Grim and Mean

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Grim adjective - Harsh and threatening in manner or appearance.

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Mean and grim are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Mean" instead an adjective "Grim".

Nearby Words: grimy, grimly, grimed

Mean adjective - Being about midway between extremes of amount or size.

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Grim and mean are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Grim" instead an adjective "Mean".

Nearby Words: means, meaning, meanness, meant, meanly

A proper one I mean, not one of those grim ones, a nice, pretty, clean one, which in reality, most of us are.

Source: Unproblematic Prostitution
The tagline is "In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only war" and boy, do they mean it.

Source: Analysis / Warhammer 40,000
Word of God is that the Time Lord "gods" are just bored Eternals, which may mean she isn't actually the Grim Reaper.

Source: The Grim Reaper

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