grievously

grievous | American Dictionary

grievous
adjective
us/ˈɡri·vəs/
having very serious effects or causing great pain:
It was a grievous head wound, and he was not expected to survive.

grievously

adverbus/ˈɡri·vəs·li/
He was grievously injured.

Examples of grievous

grievous
It seems to me that the police power has become the refuge of every grievous wrong upon private property.
It would seem to be a grievous disregard for the rules of his own method, a disregard motivated principally by moral emotion and political opinion.
These past deprivations were associated with what we now understand to have been grievous injustices.
Indeed, the restriction imposed by the enclosures on access to common resources was a grievous blow to the poorest segments of the rural population, 'pushing' them to urbanization.
The same did not apply on sentencing at reoffence when a number of subjects received community disposals, including one who had been convicted of causing grievous bodily harm.
Group histories of grievous exploitation or national independence are found not to explain patterns of secessionism.
Regions suffering grievous national crimes (such as mass deportation or conquest) tended to be no more separatist, on the whole, than groups not bearing such grievances.
These words suggest that communal fields were grievous not only because they constituted forced labor, but also because they broke down established patterns of patronage and social and gender hierarchies.
I respectfully suggest that that is likely to be a grievous underestimate.
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