grievous

IPA: grˈivʌs

Examples of "grievous" in Sentences

I use the word grievous to connote harms that are severe.
And that, Steve-o, is what we call a grievous moral error.
But that which makes the judgment the more grievous is that their hearts seem to be hardened under it.
So there ` s another issue: why are doctors succumbing to the dollar and causing this kind of grievous harm to a person just because they can pay?
What’s grievous is not that the guy turned out to be blind but that Bush feels perfectly okay clowning around at a press conference while people he sent capriciously to war are dying in battle.
What makes them to the regenerate "not grievous," is faith which "overcometh the world" (1Jo 5: 4): in proportion as faith is strong, the grievousness of God's commandments to the rebellious flesh is overcome.
The gate was arched like a great hall and over walls and roof ramped vines with grapes of many colours; the red like rubies and the black like ebonies; and beyond it lay a bower of trelliced boughs growing fruits single and composite, and small birds on branches sang with melodious recite, and the thousand-noted nightingale shrilled with her varied shright; the turtle with her cooing filled the site; the blackbird whistled like human wight47 and the ring-dove moaned like a drinker in grievous plight.