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• s  causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm
  grievous bodily harm
• s  causing or marked by grief or anguish
  a grievous loss
  a grievous cry
• s  of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought
  a grievous fault
• s  shockingly brutal or cruel
  a grievous offense against morality
  a grievous crime

• Ann filed for divorce in Honolulu in January 1964, citing "grievous mental suffering"the reason given in most divorces at the time.
• In any other war, they would be dead, having bled to death on the battlefield or died in a hospital from wounds so grievous that their armor could not protect them and the doctors .
• For example, hardly anyone now disagrees that the choice to invade Iraq was a grievous mistake.

• dangerous
• grave
• serious
• severe
• life-threatening
• heartbreaking
• heartrending
• heavy
• weighty
• atrocious
• flagitious
• monstrous

News & Articles

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• Critics’ Choice Television Awards Fug Carpet: Kaley Cuoco
  Well, she’s lovely, so I’m very glad Kaley Cuoco won herself this lovely doorstop. But I’m terribly sad for her that she did it in a dress that is betraying her torso in such a grievous, flagrant manner. It is the Brutus to her Caesar.
  June 11, 2013 - Go Fug Yourself
• Critics’ Choice Television Awards Fug Carpet: Kaley Cuoco
  Well, she’s lovely, so I’m very glad Kaley Cuoco won herself this lovely doorstop. But I’m terribly sad for her that she did it in a dress that is betraying her torso in such a grievous, flagrant manner. It is the Brutus to her Caesar.
  June 11, 2013 - Go Fug Yourself

Quotes

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• Manmohan Singh in Daily Times
  The people of Pakistan have suffered a grievous blow,Singh said and added he was "deeply shocked and horrified to hear of the heinous assassination of Benazir."
• Jon S Corzine in FOXNews
  This is a day of progress for us and for the millions of people across our nation and around the globe who reject the death penalty as a moral or practical response to the grievous, even heinous, crime of murder,Corzine said.
• Hillary Rodham Clinton in National Post
  Ms. Clinton added: "The Pakistani people have suffered grievous losses, but they are standing firm in the face of this intimidation -- and the United States stands with them."