Gruesome
Gruesome adjective - Extremely disturbing or repellent.
Both words in one sentence
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The stoner Marty is wounded and dragged offscreen by one of the Buckners to be killed, and the Controllers assume he died a gruesome death.
Source: Film / The Cabin in the Woods -
The show not only has characters die, but also wounded, sometimes in gruesome ways (though without a whole lot of blood).
- People whose clothes are on fire and are presumably wounded or killed by said flames may appear here if there's no gruesome detail.
Source: Mohs Scale of Violence Hardness
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