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词汇 example_english_grievous-mistake
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grievous mistake

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meanings of grievousand mistake


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grievous
adjective
uk /ˈɡriː.vəs/ us /ˈɡriː.vəs/
having very serious effects or causing ...
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mistake
noun[C]
uk /mɪˈsteɪk/ us /mɪˈsteɪk/
an action, decision, or judgment that produces an unwanted or ...
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Examples of grievous mistake


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It was a grievousmistake and many lives and many hopes were lost forever.
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To remove the possibility of achieving the standards that we all want by removing the deterrent would be a grievousmistake.
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My instinctive feeling is that the timing of this change as proposed is a grievousmistake.
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To pull away one of the central props, by refusing a free post, is a grievousmistake.
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To try in statute form to restrict the numbers who might be available to carry out the task would be a grievousmistake.
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I believe that to vote against this order would be a grievousmistake.
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I feel that it would be a grievousmistake at this stage to interfere with the clauses as they stand.
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That tribunal may make a grievousmistake with regard to the evidence and may order that a medical practitioner shall no longer appear on any list in the whole country.
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Sorman argues that while the recent world economic recession involved serious problems, it would be a grievousmistake to use the crisis as justification to abandon free market democratic capitalism.
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It will be a very slow and a very costly thing to reform and set right the grievous mistakes of the past.
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Because there has been one mistake, one should not therefore indulge in a process in which other, equally grievous mistakes are made.
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That is why those were grievous mistakes.
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I say it because of this fact, that while a new country or an undeveloped country can make the most grievous mistakes and recover from them, we cannot do it.
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I should have been saved from many grievous mistakes and many misjudgments.
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