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Grievous

adjective

Causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm. Synonyms: dangerous, grave, life-threatening, serious, severe. "A grave situation" , "A grave illness" , "Grievous bodily harm" , "A serious wound" , "A serious turn of events" , "A severe case of pneumonia" , "A life-threatening disease"

Causing or marked by grief or anguish. Synonyms: heartbreaking, heartrending. "A grievous cry" , "Her sigh was heartbreaking" , "The heartrending words of Rabin's granddaughter"

Of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought. Synonyms: grave, heavy, weighty. "Faced a grave decision in a time of crisis" , "A grievous fault" , "Heavy matters of state" , "The weighty matters to be discussed at the peace conference"

Shockingly brutal or cruel. Synonyms: atrocious, flagitious, monstrous. "A grievous offense against morality" , "A grievous crime" , "No excess was too monstrous for them to commit"

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... hours passed away, and no mules appeared; and at length we came to the grievous conviction that the arrieros had mistaken the road, and that we must expect neither food nor beds that night; for it was now too late to think of reaching Pascuaro. In this extremity, the gentlemen from Morelia, suffering for their politeness in having escorted ...

— Life in Mexico • Frances Calderon de la Barca

... gained more surely and much more speedily; and the first real step will have been taken to withdraw South African affairs from the arena of British party politics, in which they have inflicted injury on both political parties and in which they have suffered grievous injury themselves. I ask that that may be considered; but in any case we are prepared to go forward alone, and Letters Patent will be issued in strict conformity with the settlement I have explained this afternoon if we should continue to enjoy the ...

— Liberalism and the Social Problem • Winston Spencer Churchill

... Venezuela. In making these recommendations I am fully alive to the responsibility incurred, and keenly realize all the consequences that may follow. I am nevertheless firm in my conviction that while it is a grievous thing to contemplate the two great English-speaking peoples ... as being otherwise than friendly ... there is no calamity ... which equals that which follows a supine submission to ...

— The United States Since The Civil War • Charles Ramsdell Lingley

... been followed up. It is grievous that cool and calculating investigation should spoil a pretty story, but ...

— About Ireland • E. Lynn Linton

... freedom, and hastened his death by his exertion to abolish the African Slave Trade. He lays stress, not only on the great qualities which Fox displayed in public life, but also on the simplicity and kindness of his nature, and the spell which, in spite of grievous faults, he seemed able to cast, without effort, ...

— Lord John Russell • Stuart J. Reid

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