grimness

The whole process could have been a joyful PR interlude, replacing the current grind of grimness.

This longing for grimness actually has its own portmanteau word, ostalgie.

Hilda stabbed a great crisp fallen teak leaf with her parasol, and spent the grimness of this in twirling it.

Please observe Wiseman and Wishart; for incidental grimness, they strike me as in it.

No doubt this grimness of Crozier was due to domestic trouble and not wholly to his own presence.

"With our last cent," came the answer of the other man, and in the voice was grimness and enthusiasm.

But even from its grimness emanated the same faint, mysterious odor of cinnamon roses that lurked in the accompanying letter.