Languages change over the years. Grizzly is now a synonym for gruesome, only more extreme.
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GRISLY is a synonym for gruesome. GRIZZLY refers to gray tipped hair (grizzled) and hence to the bear so named. The language has not changed (at least in respect to these two sound alike words), there’s just too many subliterate journalists who don’t know they need to use a dictionary, and editors who are in no way an improvement. :-(