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

The most grievous incident: someone had thrown garbage in a toilet on the carrier’s lowest deck.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 21, 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

She was magnificent in her queenly desolation, and on her face was an expression of sweetness and serenity she never had in her grievous life.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende