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Recent Examples of gnarly
Despite a few gnarly images of impalement, Evans’s Dracula is too overloaded with sad-boy backstory to have any bite, and the movie’s attempt at a tragic-hero plot falls flat.
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Celia Mattison, Vulture, 27 Dec. 2024
The movie also inspired many Halloween costumes, with fans dressing as Elisabeth, Sue, or even the body horror monstrosity that emerges as the substance begins causing gnarly side effects.
—Brendan Morrow, USA TODAY, 4 Dec. 2024
With flu season in full swing, many people are dealing with gnarly respiratory symptoms, and some soothing broth could come in clutch.
—Caroline Tien, SELF, 13 Dec. 2024
As foretold by cast member and EP Jill Wagner, the Lioness Season 2 finale was a gnarly nail biter.
—Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 8 Dec. 2024
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Celia Mattison, Vulture, 27 Dec. 2024
The movie also inspired many Halloween costumes, with fans dressing as Elisabeth, Sue, or even the body horror monstrosity that emerges as the substance begins causing gnarly side effects.
—Brendan Morrow, USA TODAY, 4 Dec. 2024
With flu season in full swing, many people are dealing with gnarly respiratory symptoms, and some soothing broth could come in clutch.
—Caroline Tien, SELF, 13 Dec. 2024
As foretold by cast member and EP Jill Wagner, the Lioness Season 2 finale was a gnarly nail biter.
—Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 8 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gnarly
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Things did get ugly a few years later, with the Mexican-American war.Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2025
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His users are the ones that will suffer the most when the platform gets uglier.Scott Nover, TIME, 10 Jan. 2025
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Also, there may be three outfits, but that’s less exciting when all three of them are hideous.Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 10 Jan. 2025
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And in reading on, it will be said up front that government spending is the most hideous, economy-sapping tax of all.John Tamny, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
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This woman is just an awful, disgusting person in general.Eric Thomas, Sun Sentinel, 11 Jan. 2025
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Regardless of who wins, social media will be abuzz with the postgame mayo shower, which is either good comedy or downright disgusting, depending on your tolerance for condiments getting poured on people.Dan Santaromita, The Athletic, 3 Jan. 2025
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Even though Ciara and Nikki catch some of the votes, Bob the Drag Queen is banished from the game after that hellish Traitor-on-Traitor violence.Nick Caruso, TVLine, 16 Jan. 2025
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But an indie Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater, or even Skate, this is not: Eng is whisking us off to the nine hellish layers of the underworld to complete a series of fiendish skateboarding trials.Lewis Gordon, Vulture, 8 Jan. 2025
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His name has been cursed on the streets of Sacramento, read off a loathsome strip of paper tucked under the windshield wiper: Grant Nakamura.Ariane Lange, Sacramento Bee, 4 Jan. 2025
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Indy’s reverence for art was hardly shared by the Nazis, who in the game are most notably represented by a loathsome archaeologist nemesis called Emmerich Voss.Lewis Gordon, Vulture, 18 Dec. 2024
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So Fleury, sick as heck, was forced to back up, which also meant Gustavsson had to survive all 60 minutes of his second consecutive horrid outing.Michael Russo, The Athletic, 9 Jan. 2025
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So read the book now before the paperback gets one of those horrid movie-poster covers.Vulture Editors, Vulture, 7 Jan. 2025
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Asking Eric: That letter was about me, the beastly wife Asking Eric: That letter was about me, the beastly wife Kurtenbach: The 49ers are battered beyond recognition.Joseph Dycus, The Mercury News, 30 Dec. 2024
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Solar flares are ranked and categorized by their power on a 4-level classification scale, with M-class the second strongest to the beastly X-class at the top.Meredith Garofalo, Space.com, 27 Dec. 2024
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There’s no legal argument to be made against this turn away from fact-checking and towards a more freewheeling, more disinformation-laden, more confusing, more hateful and less illuminating approach.New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 13 Jan. 2025
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With Zuckerberg’s decision to rescind policies barring hateful speech, he’s made clear that distinction is worth the possibility of political clout come Inauguration Day.Makena Kelly, WIRED, 9 Jan. 2025
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“Gnarly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gnarly. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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