All 3 Uses of
grievous
in
Washington Square
- But the poor girl's dumb eloquence irritated him more than anything else would have done, and he caught himself murmuring more than once that it was a grievous pity his only child was a simpleton.†
Chpt 8 *
- In the second, it was plain it would never come to him, and it would be a grievous pity he should marry without it—a young man who might so easily find something better.†
Chpt 28
- You have only to look at her to see that, right or wrong, and whether the rupture came from herself or from him, her poor little heart is grievously bruised.†
Chpt 32
Definition:
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(grievous) very serious; or very bad; or causing grief