Synonym: awful, contemptible, deplorable, outrageous, severe, sorrowful, terrible, wretched. Antonym: venial. Similar words: mischievous, grieve, aggrieved, grievance, devour, devout, grief, reprieve. Meaning: ['griːvəs] 
adj. 1. causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm 2. causing or marked by grief or anguish 3. of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought 4. shockingly brutal or cruel.
adj. 1. causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm 2. causing or marked by grief or anguish 3. of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought 4. shockingly brutal or cruel. 
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1, The loss of his father was a grievous blow.
2, Her death was a grievous shock.
3, They were both found guilty of causing grievous bodily harm.
4, He had been the victim of a grievous injustice.
5, He survived in spite of suffering grievous injuries.
6, He was charged with maliciously inflicting grievous bodily harm.
7, There was once a grievous famine in the land.
8, Their loss would be a grievous blow to our engineering industries.
9, Her death is a grievous loss to the whole of the community.
10, He pilled with grievous taxes and quite lost their hearts.
11, Liddle is also charged with grievous bodily harm.
12, The Mormon Church considers abortion a grievous sin.
13, Grievous bodily harm, about twenty-five years ago.
14, Since grievous bodily harm can be committed by an omission it would be strange if assault and battery could not be.
15, For a submariner, he had committed a grievous act -- mixing alcohol with duty.
16, It is claimed Metclafe inflicted grievous bodily harm to a man and then attempted to pervert the course of justice.
17, Congress now has a chance to correct its grievous error.
18, In court Diaz admitted charges of inflicting grievous bodily harm and affray and Walker admitted affray and assault causing actual bodily harm.
19, Grievous bodily harm: unlawful wounding, including cuts, or using a weapon which causes actual injury.
20, We're talking serious grievous bodily here,[http://sentencedict.com/grievous.html] maybe loss of life and limb.
21, He will appear in court today charged with grievous bodily harm and intimidation.
22, Mr Morris said the victims had suffered from a very grievous mistake.
23, A pied-piper's trail of opportunity discarded, needless abasement endured, and a grievous ransom paid in blood and treasure.
24, Arthurs, 33, of Exeter, was jailed for nine months after admitting causing grievous bodily harm.
25, In addition to the papal disregard of Canterbury's primatial claim over York, the monastic community suffered another grievous blow.
26, Another 40 people are facing charges of riot and conspiracy to cause grievous bodily harm.
27, Jones, 29, of Sutton in Ashfield, denies murder, attempted murder and causing grievous bodily harm.
28, On that occasion he received a sentence of imprisonment for causing grievous bodily harm.
29, Mississippi, but by the fact that the partial payment on a grievous debt was so long overdue.
30, The conduct may be either causing a wound or causing grievous bodily harm.