grievous
Example Sentences
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In a statement released to the Baltimore Banner news site, “Wire” creator David Simon called Ransone’s death “grievous and awful.”
From Los Angeles Times
We have suffered a grievous blow, but we will recover.
That gives the impression that the powers-that-be properly acknowledged and put right a grievous wrong.
Scenes like this are tricky enough to pull off tastefully in dramatized films, but here, the sequence feels impossibly grievous.
From Salon
Online retail's gain would have been English rugby's grievous loss.
From BBC
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