Causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm.
Of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought.
Causing or marked by grief or anguish.
Shockingly brutal or cruel.
1 The fault was in him entirely; it was his own grievous fault.
2 A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.
3 Who do I need to talk to have this grievous error rectified?
4 In fact he was in grievous danger of coming under the dragon-spell.
5 And he that turneth unto whatsoever else is indeed in grievous error.
6 The thought of missing it is too grievous to mention in public.
7 But it is none the less an error, and a grievous one.
8 The huge man in the many capes doubtless suffered no grievous harm.
9 And attend to this; for, the Infidels shall suffer a grievous chastisement.
10 But more things, and most grievous ones, were happening with equal suddenness.
11 The warning must be given that there is no more grievous error.
12 Objection 1: It seems that disobedience is the most grievous of sins.
13 No, these had been sore: they had been grievous in the extreme.
14 It was grievous at first; but use reconciles every thing to us.
15 Yes, if there was one grievous error they made, this was it.
16 Ryerson has one grievous fault; he uses all sorts of slang phrases.
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