a grievous crime

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• grievous — [grēv′əs] adj. [ME grevous < OFr < grever: see GRIEVE] 1. causing grief 2. showing or characterized by grief [a grievous cry] 3. causing suffering; hard to bear; severe [grievous pain] 4. very serious; deplorable [a grievous fault …   English World dictionary

• grievous — I adjective afflicting, afflictive, agonizing, appalling, arrant, atrocious, bad, base, bitter, burdensome, cataclysmic, catastrophic, crushing, cutting, deplorable, detrimental, dire, disastrous, distressing, doleful, dolorous, dreadful,… …   Law dictionary

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• grievous —   a. very severe or painful; causing grief or suffering, heinous.    ♦ grievous bodily    ♦ harm, Law, crime of inflicting serious physical injury on another person. (abbr.    ♦ GBH) …   Dictionary of difficult words

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