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adj.severe, painful; serious

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Depictions of Indigenous communities in American pop culture have, historically, often added insult to grievous injury.

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The jihadist military had suffered a grievous blow, but the extremist theology lived on.

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It had suffered grievous casualties but its infrastructure and industrial capacity were untouched, and its relative power had never—and has never—been greater.

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When his first wife died from tuberculosis, despite his zealous efforts to save her, a grievous Metchnikoff took an overdose of opium, but lived.

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Prosecutors alleged that in June 2011 and April 2012, he unlawfully struck, choked, kicked and pulled the hair of his wife and struck her young son “with a force likely to produce death or grievous bodily harm.”

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A grievous vision is told me: he that is unfaithful dealeth unfaithfully: and he that is a spoiler, spoileth.

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But his record shows grievous instability, and Robert probably had sound reasons for putting a period to his dubieties.

KING ROBERT THE BRUCEA. F. MURISON

And then the old woman found that she had made a grievous mistake, and hastened to repair it.

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At their presence the people shall be in grievous pains: all faces shall be made like a kettle.

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Here are four distinct predictions; national peculiarity, grievous oppression, universal dispersion and remarkable preservation.

GOSPEL PHILOSOPHYJ. H. WARD

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