"gruesome practice" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to describe a disturbing or macabre ritual or tradition. Example: The ancient tribe had a gruesome practice of sacrificing a newborn baby to appease their gods.
Most of the world has moved beyond this gruesome practice.
"He often writes about child sex slavery, a gruesome practice that holds countless youngsters captive.
Keith Vaz, chair of the home affairs select committee has said he is "shocked" at the "gruesome" practice.
Keith Vaz, the chairman of parliament's home affairs select committee, said he was shocked at the "gruesome" practice.
In the Commons, the Labour MP David Winnick called on May to provide parliament with answers about what he called a "gruesome practice".
The ancient Persians developed a gruesome practice called scaphism, which involved force-feeding a person milk and honey, lashing him to a boat or hollow tree trunk, and then allowing flies to infest the victim's anus and increasingly gangrenous flesh.
"The committee will need to seek answers from the Metropolitan police, to find out why they allowed these gruesome practices to happen".
Around the world, equally gruesome practices which stem from the same motive – inscribing subjugation on the female body – persist, from female genital mutilation to breast ironing.
The psychological explanation for the killer's gruesome practices involves the sexual abuse of a child, and the homicidal methodology is fussily precise and demands specialized knowledge and a lot of specialized, and presumably expensive, equipment.
The international development secretary, Justine Greening, who has made cutting violence against women a priority for the government's aid operation in Kabul, met the Afghan leader the day after news surfaced of the proposal to revive one of the most gruesome practices of the Taliban era.
It's a gruesome, racist practice that should offend all New Yorkers, and it should cease.
