Distorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal and hideous.
Shockingly brutal or cruel.
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Examples for "grievous "
Examples for "grievous "
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.
1 Still, violence against women and girls persists and takes atrocious new forms.
2 Outside in the atrocious cold the whining malamutes crept nearer and nearer.
3 At this time the atrocious custom of head-hunting prevailed in the island.
4 It can't be stressed enough: John McCain was an atrocious presidential candidate.
5 He was an atrocious criminal was all that was said about him.
1 Farm murders are often the most heinous crimes committed in South Africa.
2 A stern-looking Medvedev replied: Identify those involved in committing this heinous crime.
3 We in Ireland were innocent of such a heinous offence against nature.
4 They know that kidnapping is the most heinous crime in our society.
5 They regard the smoking ban as heinous and don't have a website.
1 This deportment was too humiliating and flagitious to be imputed to him.
2 That gallant Cavalier was hanged, after the Restoration, for a flagitious burglary.
3 Since a legal marriage was impossible, no doubt, his views were flagitious .
4 I place on that miscreant's back a long array of flagitious ancestors.
5 Thus, in a moment, had terminated his long and flagitious career.
1 This monstrous suspension bridge spans the Bosphorus strait connecting Europe to Asia.
2 I have seen slavery; own slaves: there is nothing monstrous in it.
3 Attention to this monstrous crime has been slow coming and sadly predictable.
4 All this was nothing, in appearance; in reality, it was monstrous , amazing.
5 A crisis seemed to rise up monstrous between them, in an instant.
6 His not bringing the letter seemed monstrous ; and so indeed it was.
7 The flower of the Roman patriciate was wallowing in this monstrous treachery.
8 A monstrous 14 repeated itself stubbornly along the gorgeous reach of it.
9 That was such a monstrous crime that Edklinth felt yet more apprehensive.
10 It was no longer human, but rather, a monstrous amalgamation of Humanity.
11 Yet even more monstrous exaggerations of Nature seemed disturbingly close at hand.
12 This doctrine of the right of the Protestant individual is merely monstrous .
13 It is monstrous ; but I am afraid you will not be welcome.
14 No: some kind of monstrous thing, throbbing with a pale green light.
15 The alliance which your Cabinet has formed will appear monstrous in history.
16 For the thought that had sprung up in her mind was monstrous .
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