grievous mistake

collocation in English

meaningsofgrievousandmistake

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grievous
adjective
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/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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(Definition ofgrievousandmistakefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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It was agrievousmistakeand 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 agrievousmistake.
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My instinctive feeling is that the timing of this change as proposed is agrievousmistake.
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To pull away one of the central props, by refusing a free post, is agrievousmistake.
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To try in statute form to restrict the numbers who might be available to carry out the task would be agrievousmistake.
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I believe that to vote against this order would be agrievousmistake.
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I feel that it would be agrievousmistakeat this stage to interfere with the clauses as they stand.
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That tribunal may make agrievousmistakewith 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 agrievousmistaketo 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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