(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.
Painful
Definition:
(a.) Full of pain; causing uneasiness or distress, either physical or mental; afflictive; disquieting; distressing.
(a.) Requiring labor or toil; difficult; executed with laborious effort; as a painful service; a painful march.
(a.) Painstaking; careful; industrious.
Example Sentences:
(1) Experience of pain is modified by intern and extern influences, and it can appear very multiformly in the chronicity.
(2) All subjects completed the Coping Strategies Questionnaire, which measures the use and perceived effectiveness of a variety of cognitive and behavioral coping strategies in controlling and decreasing pain.
(3) Although solely nociresponsive neurons are clearly likely to fill a role in the processing and signalling of pain in the conscious central nervous system, the way in which such useful specificity could be conveyed by multireceptive neurons is difficult to appreciate.
(4) Sixteen patients were operated on for lumbar pain and pain radiating into the sciatic nerve distribution.
(5) Needle acupuncture did, however, increase the pain threshold compared with the initial value (alpha = 0.1%).
(6) Pain is not reported in the removal area, the clinical examinations show identical findings on both patellar tendons, X-ray and ultrasound evaluations do not demonstrate any change in patellar position.
(7) For assessment of clinical status, investigators must rely on the use of standardized instruments for patient self-reporting of fatigue, mood disturbance, functional status, sleep disorder, global well-being, and pain.
(8) However, as the plan unravels, Professor Marcus's team turn on one another, with painfully (if painfully funny) results.
(9) During the chronic phase, pain was assessed using visual analogue scales at 8 AM and 4 PM daily.
(10) Symptoms, particularly colicky abdominal pain, improved during the period of chelation therapy.
(11) Cook, who has postbox-red hair and a painful-looking piercing in his lower lip, was now on stage in discussion with four fellow YouTubers, all in their early 20s.
(12) The main clinical symptom was pain, usually sciatica, while neurological symptoms were less common than they are in adults.
(13) The study revealed that hypophysectomy and ventricular injection of AVP dose dependently raised pain threshold and these effects were inhibited by naloxone.
(14) Anxious mood and other symptoms of anxiety were commonly seen in patients with chronic low back pain.
(15) During these delays, medical staff attempt to manage these often complex and painful conditions with ad hoc and temporizing measures,” write the doctors.
(16) In this study, a potassium nitrate-polycarboxylate cement was used as a liner and was found clinically to tend to preserve pulpal vitality and significantly eliminate or decrease postoperative pain.
(17) The successful treatment of the painful neuroma remains an elusive surgical goal.
(18) Univariate and multivariate analyses indicated previous LBP or back pain in another location of the spine were strongly associated with LBP during the study year.
(19) Our previous study demonstrated that acupuncture increased pain threshold of the body, especially in the inflammatory area.
(20) The triad of epigastric pain unrelieved by antacids, bilious vomiting, and weight loss, particularly after a gastric operation should make one suspect this syndrome.