grievous

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And it delivers a blunt message, warning that this executive order would inflict a grievous, possibly lethal moral harm on the nation.

From Slate • Feb. 27, 2026

Americans shouldn’t have to live any longer with such a possibility of grievous disturbance.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026

Aside from medical ailments, you may sense that long-ago unresolved issues — ruptured relationships, grievous losses, life-altering decisions — undermine your well-being in subtle but significant ways.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 7, 2026

It was a grievous historical error to assume that the gains made through passionate and painful struggle by racial justice movements, feminism, LGBTQ+ Pride and so on were natural, inevitable and irreversible.

From Salon • Jul. 6, 2025

‘These are evil tidings,’ said Celeborn, ‘the most evil that have been spoken here in long years full of grievous deeds.’

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien