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grievously

/gree-vuhs/US // ˈgri vəs //UK // (ˈɡriːvəs) //

悲痛地,悲哀地,可悲的是,悲痛

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : causing grief or great sorrow: grievous news.
    • : flagrant; outrageous; atrocious: a grievous offense against morality.
    • : full of or expressing grief; sorrowful: a grievous cry.
    • : burdensome or oppressive.
    • : causing great pain or suffering: arrested for causing grievous bodily harm to someone in a bar.

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Examples

  • The country’s grievous past has so thoroughly spoiled the present that even the Constitution has been called into question.

  • If the allegations are false, Cosby has been grievously wronged with his reputation forever tainted.

  • And Bill Weasley remains happily married to Fleur Delacour despite being “grievously scarred from an encounter with a werewolf”.

  • Want to know why the Tea Party so eager to grievously wound the Republican Party?

  • Li was sprawled on the kitchen floor with her 5-year-old son, Kevin Zhou, both of them grievously wounded.

  • He was one of the most grievously injured pilots to arrive in Hanoi.

  • A full third of the attacking force lay on the ground, dead or grievously wounded.

  • Moreover, she had never so thoroughly enjoyed being a girl, and love-making would have bored her grievously.

  • I believe they expected to receive a large sum from these relics: how grievously they were disappointed I need not tell.

  • The assailants were grievously embarrassed by stones rolled down upon them and by the fire of the archers.

  • My failure to accomplish the desired result is grievously exasperating, and I feel deeply humiliated.