Genuinely horrific, awful, or alarming; dangerous, risky.
Unpleasant, awful, very bad (also used as an intensifier).
Dreadfully.
A shocking or sensational crime.
A journal or broadsheet printing such reports.
A shocker: a report of a crime written in a provokingly lurid style.
Ghastly or sinister.
Rigid and unrelenting.
Disgusting; gross.
Dismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding.
To make grim; to give a stern or forbidding aspect to.