grievous
Example Sentences
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The most grievous incident: someone had thrown garbage in a toilet on the carrier’s lowest deck.
According to the tribunal, this was "a serious and grievous consequence particularly because this has happened through the misconduct of a priest."
From BBC
Whatever its actual length, there is no doubting the war’s traumatic impact upon France, where swaths of countryside were depopulated for decades, or the grievous toll upon combatants and civilians alike.
Americans shouldn’t have to live any longer with such a possibility of grievous disturbance.
For Iran, Russia and China, “losing a partner in the Western Hemisphere is a blow, but not a grievous one,” said Gregory Brew, a senior analyst at the Eurasia Group, an advisory firm.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
