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grievous harm

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meanings of grievousand harm


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grievous
adjective
uk /ˈɡriː.vəs/ us /ˈɡriː.vəs/
having very serious effects or causing ...
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harm
noun[U]
uk /hɑːm/ us /hɑːrm/
physical or other injury ...
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Examples of grievous harm


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A man's reputation as a private individual or in the way of his calling may have suffered grievous harm without its being possible to prove any direct pecuniary loss.
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This raises matters of the gravest concern—matters that have done great and grievousharm to the nation.
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Moreover, in some cases such a principle would mean doing most grievousharm to the conscience of one of these people.
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But any man with experience of business is bound to admit that these proposals and suggestions are doing grievousharm to the restoration of trade.
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It has certainly done the centre grievousharm.
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It causes grievousharm to the newspaper industry of this country.
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In my opinion it has done grievousharm.
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As a result, by good intentions, they have done grievousharm to exactly the people whom they want to benefit.
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That individual may suffer grievousharm of some kind and serious detriment to his professional or private standing in society.
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If they want to carry that further, they might well investigate other aspects of the investment grant system which are doing grievousharm to our industry.
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There is not a shadow of doubt in the first place that this dispute is doing us most grievousharm at a most critical time in our history.
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A man's reputation as a private individual or in the way of his calling may have suffered grievous harm without its being possible to prove any direct pecuniary loss.
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Will he, on behalf of the whole nation, bear in mind in future that small sums of money taken out of national expenditure may do grievousharm?
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