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grievousness

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

悲痛,忧伤,悲伤,痛苦

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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

  • Depictions of Indigenous communities in American pop culture have, historically, often added insult to grievous injury.

  • The jihadist military had suffered a grievous blow, but the extremist theology lived on.

  • It had suffered grievous casualties but its infrastructure and industrial capacity were untouched, and its relative power had never—and has never—been greater.

  • When his first wife died from tuberculosis, despite his zealous efforts to save her, a grievous Metchnikoff took an overdose of opium, but lived.

  • Prosecutors alleged that in June 2011 and April 2012, he unlawfully struck, choked, kicked and pulled the hair of his wife and struck her young son “with a force likely to produce death or grievous bodily harm.”

  • Hildebrand was keenly aware of the grievous failures of Christians under Nazism.

  • The cop lay open-eyed with a grievous head wound as Johnson again checked for a pulse.

  • No longer will we have to endure the grievous injury of that flag popping up as a museum shop chotchke.

  • Some horror will be too great, some attack too grievous for us to ignore.

  • The tactics almost certainly have saved untold thousands of innocents from grievous injury, even death.

  • A grievous vision is told me: he that is unfaithful dealeth unfaithfully: and he that is a spoiler, spoileth.

  • But his record shows grievous instability, and Robert probably had sound reasons for putting a period to his dubieties.

  • And then the old woman found that she had made a grievous mistake, and hastened to repair it.

  • At their presence the people shall be in grievous pains: all faces shall be made like a kettle.

  • Here are four distinct predictions; national peculiarity, grievous oppression, universal dispersion and remarkable preservation.