grievously

adverb

Definition of grievouslynext
as in bitterly
with feelings of bitterness or grief I was grievously disappointed not to be invited to the wedding

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Recent Examples of grievously Andropov died in 1984, and Gorbachev took more than a year to gain power while the Kremlin stumbled along under the caretaker regime of the grievously ill Konstantin Chernenko. — Tom Nichols, The Atlantic, 14 Aug. 2026 Precious minutes go by before Antonio, grievously wounded, reaches a hospital. — Sydney Brownstone, NPR, 2 Aug. 2026 Taken together, the number of Russian troops either killed or grievously wounded each month sits at roughly 30,000. — Alexander Gabuev, Foreign Affairs, 31 July 2026 When religion is made to serve the work of empire rather than the work of liberation, something has gone grievously wrong. — Otis Moss Iii, Chicago Tribune, 28 June 2026 But her sister’s head was grievously misshapen. — New York Times, 21 June 2026 The child, identified as Finley Baker, was grievously injured in the three-way collision on a Lincolnshire road on March 19, 2025, Lincolnshire police said in a statement. — Samira Asma-Sadeque, PEOPLE, 11 June 2026 Justice Curtis Farber handed down the sentence to Alejandro Piedra, 32, for claiming the life of 38-year-old Clemson Cockfield, and grievously injuring the victim’s wife, Jennifer Cockfield, and another man, Jonathan Lopez, during a bloody melee on June 23, 2024. — Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily News, 26 May 2026 Jury selection continued Friday in Woodland ahead of Carlos Reales Dominguez’s second murder trial in the deadly Davis knife attacks that left two men dead, a woman grievously wounded and a city terrorized in 2023. — Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 23 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for grievously
  1. bitterly
  2. sorrowfully
  3. sadly
  4. painfully
Adverb
  • District 4 The District 4 race between Sharry Kimmel, of Parkland, and Nicole Morst, of Coral Springs, has turned into one of the most bitterly contested, with both candidates questioning the honesty of their opponent.
    — Scott Travis, Sun Sentinel, 14 Aug. 2026
  • Many clergy bitterly opposed the handover of the villages and criticized Pashinyan, who came to power in the South Caucasus nation amid a wave of hopeful, pro-democracy protests that swept Armenia in 2018.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 9 Aug. 2026
Definition of bitterly
Adverb
  • Tarun would tease her, and my mother would look sorrowfully toward Kavitha, as if the two of them now shared some womanly burden.
    — Madhuri Vijay, New Yorker, 16 Nov. 2025
Definition of sorrowfully
Adverb
  • The bears were getting thinned out in Mississippi, and the wilderness was sadly reduced.
    — Paul Schullery, Outdoor Life, 13 Aug. 2026
  • Just as Wolvie is hot on their trail, he’s impaled by a harpoon and the demo sadly comes to an end.
    — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of sadly
Adverb
  • Hathaway effortlessly carries the film’s pathos, building a home in a very human (and painfully relatable) character.
    — Chris Bellamy, Entertainment Weekly, 14 Aug. 2026
  • But loving Lochte and building a life with him proved, painfully, to be two different things.
    — Adam Carlson, PEOPLE, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of painfully

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