GRIM

Hardly upbeat

• ___ Reaper

• Affording no hope

• Bad, as a prognosis

• Black

• Cheerless

• Dark, as prospects

• Depressing

• Dismal

• Dispiriting

• Dreadful

• Far from promising

• Filled with gloom

• Forbidding

• Frightful

• Ghastly

• Gloomy

• Hardly cheerful

• Hardly hopeful

• Hardly rosy

• Harsh

• Harsh; bleak

• In bad humor

• Like a feared reaper

• Like bad news

• Like film noir

• Like film-noir plots

• Like reality, at times

• Like the

• Like the Reaper

• Looking down

• Macabre

• Morbid

• Not at all cheerful

• Not at all rosy

• Not bright

• Not looking rosy

• Not optimistic

• Not sanguine

• Not too rosy, as an outlook

• Not very funny

• Pessimistic

• Pretty hopeless

• Reaper-like

• Severe; stern

• Sinister

• Somber

• Stern

• Stern-looking

• The ___ Reaper

• Tough

• Unhappy

• Unpleasant

• Unpromising

• Unsmiling

• Unyielding

• Very serious