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
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 The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 8, 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
Scenes like this are tricky enough to pull off tastefully in dramatized films, but here, the sequence feels impossibly grievous.
From Salon • Oct. 21, 2025
But Sam was now sorrowful at heart, and it seemed to him that if the parting would be bitter, more grievous still would be the long road home alone.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
Vocabulary lists containing grievous
The SAT: Multiple-Meaning Words, List 6
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