What's the difference between dangerous and grievous?

Dangerous


Definition:

  • (a.) Attended or beset with danger; full of risk; perilous; hazardous; unsafe.
  • (a.) Causing danger; ready to do harm or injury.
  • (a.) In a condition of danger, as from illness; threatened with death.
  • (a.) Hard to suit; difficult to please.
  • (a.) Reserved; not affable.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "The Samaras government has proved to be dangerous; it cannot continue handling the country's fate."
  • (2) It arguably became too comfortable for Rodgers' team, with complacency and slack defending proving a dangerous brew.
  • (3) But it will be a subtle difference, because it's already abundantly clear there's no danger of the war being suddenly forgotten, or made to seem irrelevant to our sense of what Europe and the world has to avoid repeating.
  • (4) The dangers caused by PM10s was highlighted in the Rogers review of local authority regulatory services, published in 2007, which said poor air quality contributed to between 12,000 and 24,000 premature deaths each year.
  • (5) Women seldom occupy higher positions in a [criminal] organisation, and are rather used for menial, but often dangerous tasks ,” it notes.
  • (6) King Salman of Saudi Arabia urged the redoubling of efforts to “eradicate this dangerous scourge and rid the world of its evils”.
  • (7) They have actively intervened with governments, and particularly so in Africa.” José Luis Castro, president and chief executive officer of Vital Strategies, an organisation that promotes public health in developing countries, said: “The danger of tobacco is not an old story; it is the present.
  • (8) Meanwhile Bradley Beal has developed into a dangerous second option and complementary sidekick in exactly the same way that Dion Waiters hasn't for the Cleveland Cavaliers.
  • (9) Environment groups Environment groups that have strongly backed low-carbon power have barely wavered in their opposition to nuclear in the last decade, although their arguments now are now much about the cost than the danger it might pose.
  • (10) These lanes encourage cyclists to 'ride in the gutter' which in itself is a very dangerous riding position – especially on busy congested roads as it places the cyclist right in a motorist's blind spot.
  • (11) Existing mental health and criminal justice systems provide social control for some of these dangerous individuals, but may be inadequate to deal with those mentally disordered offenders who were not found not guilty by reason of insanity (NGI).
  • (12) When in addition the serum P is low (which was a feature of male patients), the danger exists for osteomalacia to develop.
  • (13) "It's a dangerous sign to send and it limits our ability to find a diplomatic solution to nuclear arms in Iran," he said.
  • (14) "If older people do not stay informed about the changes and take action, there is a danger that they will end up paying more unnecessarily."
  • (15) "Our black, Muslim and Jewish citizens will sleep much less easily now the BBC has legitimised the BNP by treating its racist poison as the views of just another mainstream political party when it is so uniquely evil and dangerous."
  • (16) The major difficulty encountered with the current technique is the danger of neurologic injury during the passage and handling of conventional wires, especially in extensive procedures.
  • (17) My son was born healthy, strong and very handsome, in spite of his dangerous start.
  • (18) Wright said that he was told the other two pages of documents were not provided because of freedom of information subsections concerning privacy, "sources and methods," and that can "put someone's life in danger."
  • (19) Sequential birth control pills are less common than monophasic pills, partly because the "first generation" sequential pills, which used estrogen only during the 1st part of the cycle, were more dangerous than the monophasic pills.
  • (20) Essaid Belkalem is live to the danger and saves his side's bacon.

Grievous


Definition:

  • (a.) Causing grief or sorrow; painful; afflictive; hard to bear; offensive; harmful.
  • (a.) Characterized by great atrocity; heinous; aggravated; flagitious; as, a grievous sin.
  • (a.) Full of, or expressing, grief; showing great sorrow or affliction; as, a grievous cry.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) With grievous amazement, never self-pitying but sometimes bordering on a sort of numbed wonderment, Levi records the day-to-day personal and social history of the camp, noting not only the fine gradations of his own descent, but the capacity of some prisoners to cut a deal and strike a bargain, while others, destined by their age or character for the gas ovens, follow "the slope down to the bottom, like streams that run down to the sea".
  • (2) The Meikhtila district chairman, Tin Maung Soe, said one Buddhist man was sentenced to five years' imprisonment on Thursday for causing grievous harm in connection with the killing of two Muslim men.
  • (3) Through small and large acts of deprivation and destruction we follow the process: the removal of hope, of dignity, of luxury, of necessity, of self; the reduction of a man to a hoarder of grey slabs of bread and the scrapings of a soup bowl (wonderfully told all this, with a novelist's gift for detail and sometimes very nearly comic surprise), to the confinement of a narrow bed – in which there is "not even any room to be afraid" – with a stranger who doesn't speak your language, to the cruel illogicality of hating a fellow victim of oppression more than you hate the oppressor himself – one torment following another, and even the bleak comfort of thinking you might have touched rock bottom denied you as, when the most immediate cause of a particular stress comes to an end, "you are grievously amazed to see that another one lies behind; and in reality a whole series of others".
  • (4) "This has very serious ramifications with potentially grievous consequences for the country," the military said.
  • (5) Yet his team held out when the consequences could have been much more grievous.
  • (6) On Sunday, his department was confronted with the deadliest mass shooting in American history: at least 50 dead, 53 wounded, many in grievous condition.
  • (7) Meanwhile he was grievously wanting in that other great, complementary task - the building of his state in the making.
  • (8) But they did Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people a grievous, hurtful, harmful wrong on many levels and this includes failing to include a single positive word about us anywhere in the constitution of modern Australia.
  • (9) The Chelsea manager responded with a smile and a little wave, then settled back to watch his team inflict another grievous setback to Moyes's first season at this level.
  • (10) For Arsenal it would have been a grievous setback if they had allowed a side with these shortcomings to pinch a late equaliser.
  • (11) It adds grievous insult to injury that a mother going through the turmoil that Fatima was experiencing should have to listen to this response.
  • (12) When Blair Peach was struck on the head during the demonstration against the National Front, he was a victim not only of the police but of a barely suppressed public attitude – encouraged by a large portion of the media – that people who went on such protests were troublemakers who deserved all that they got – and if police officers cracked a few heads, then they had probably been grievously provoked by the troublemakers.
  • (13) For him, "a world in which we are no longer burdened by debt, credit, hock, mortgage, HP, might not be a grievous loss but a deliverance … a more modest and more prudent way of living".
  • (14) Wolfsburg’s André Schürrle ends CSKA Moscow’s Champions League hopes Read more Depay had a difficult game against his old club and his first half-season at Old Trafford is straying dangerously close to the point where his confidence suffers grievous damage.
  • (15) But in 2000 he was jailed for grievous bodily harm after stabbing a man in the face following a row that was reported at the time to have had racial overtones.
  • (16) Abortion law "ijhad" in Kuwait was amended in 1982 to permit abortion where either grievous bodily harm to the mother is imminent or it is proved that the baby will suffer incurable brain damage or severe mental retardation.
  • (17) My friend was grievously injured and bleeding profusely.
  • (18) All three deny causing grievous bodily harm with intent.
  • (19) Asked about the potential consequences of the executions, Abbott said: “We will be letting Indonesia know in absolutely unambiguous terms that we feel grievously let down.” He said he did not want to “prejudice the best possible relations with a very important friend and neighbour but I’ve got to say that we can’t just ignore this kind of thing if the perfectly reasonable representations we are making to Indonesia are ignored by them”.
  • (20) March 2009 Butler is convicted of grievous bodily harm and sentenced to 19 months in prison.