Sample Sentences for
grievous
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    It was a grievous loss.
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    In fact he was in grievous danger of coming under the dragon-spell.  (source)
    grievous = terrible
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    But then unexpectedly a flame of grievous and terrible yearning flares up.  (source)
    grievous = very bad
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    For she has found out by art magical that this would hinder my deliverance from the grievous enchantment I lie under.  (source)
    grievous = very bad; or causing grief
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    Oh, no, sir, no … Dobby will have to punish himself most grievously for coming to see you, sir.  (source)
    grievously = seriously (badly)
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    What grievous pain a little fault doth give thee!†  (source)
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    But, oh, they have handled ye grievously, my Brothers!  (source)
    grievously = badly (in a manner that causes grief)
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    Gabriel was certain of only one thing: the painting's wounds, while grievous, were not fatal.†  (source)
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    Why should a man suffer so grievously for an offence he had committed inadvertently?†  (source)
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    I HAD BEEN WOUNDED many times before, though none were so grievous as this.†  (source)
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    He was grievously wounded and suffered brain damage.†  (source)
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    Fostering the boy elsewhere would be a grievous affront to him.†  (source)
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    In one myth, Kirta, a human king, is made grievously ill by Asherah.†  (source)
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