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Tending to cause great distress or anxiety

Causing great pain or anguish

Imposing or constituting a physical, mental, or figurative load

Full of danger or risk

Upsetting, or causing anxiety, sorrow or pain

Marked by a likelihood to threaten the safety of a person or persons

Severe or intense, especially in a painful or unpleasant way

Causing or liable to cause death or tragedy

(of a person) Lacking sophistication or refinement

(of an object or situation) Significant in degree of importance or urgency

Not based on or behaving according to the principles of equality and justice

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Adjective

Tending to cause great distress or anxiety

unfavourable^UK

down in the mouth

down in the dumps

dishonourable^UK

dishonorable^US

demoralizing^US

demoralising^UK

heart-wrenching

beyond the pale

disadvantageous

earth-shattering

a load of pants

extremely upsetting

self-reproachful

conscience-stricken

poverty-stricken

beyond contempt

stomach-churning

stomach-turning

like death warmed up

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“But what I did not hear were specific new solutions on how to solve this grievous lack of funding for health care in the largest local system in the nation.”

Adjective

Causing great pain or anguish

life-threatening

pick-and-shovel

energy-consuming

poverty-stricken

easier said than done

like getting blood out of a stone

causing discomfort

overextravagant

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“He survived in spite of suffering grievous injuries.”

Adjective

Imposing or constituting a physical, mental, or figurative load

unfavourable^UK

disadvantageous

full of hardship

pick-and-shovel

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Adjective

Full of danger or risk

jeopardising^UK

jeopardizing^US

fraught with danger

playing with fire

life-threatening

Russian roulette

hanging by a thread

on slippery ground

hanging in the balance

on a slippery slope

on collision course

in the lap of the gods

at a turning point

at a critical stage

easily threatened

easily destroyed

open to question

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Adjective

Upsetting, or causing anxiety, sorrow or pain

Adjective

Marked by a likelihood to threaten the safety of a person or persons

unfavourable^UK

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Severe or intense, especially in a painful or unpleasant way

extremely painful

not to be borne

bred-in-the-bone

thought-provoking

more than one can bear

more than flesh and blood can stand

more than flesh and blood can bear

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Adjective

Causing or liable to cause death or tragedy

life-threatening

disadvantageous

fire-and-brimstone

environmentally unfriendly

mutually harmful

mutually destructive

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Adjective

(of a person) Lacking sophistication or refinement

unsophisticated

near the knuckle

lacking in social graces

rough-and-tumble

low-down-and-dirty

close to the bone

like a bull in a china shop

in a state of nature

socially unsure

socially awkward

lowdown and dirty

rough-and-ready

rough and ready

ungentlemanlike

beyond the pale

anti-intellectual

lacking in propriety

uncomplimentary

low-down and dirty

uncommunicative

straightforward

with two left feet

cheap and nasty

physically gratifying

dishonourable^UK

dishonorable^US

sexually explicit

sexually arousing

sexually exciting

sexually suggestive

demoralizing^US

demoralising^UK

in the fast lane

good-for-naught

good-for-nothing

highly improper

as bold as brass

not to be spoken of

that dare not speak its name

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Adjective

(of an object or situation) Significant in degree of importance or urgency

of great consequence

of the utmost importance

of significance

of great import

vitally important

no laughing matter

of great importance

earth-shattering

life-threatening

mission-critical

business-critical

world-shattering

matter of life and death

meat-and-potatoes

name-of-the-game

of great moment

hanging by thread

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Not based on or behaving according to the principles of equality and justice

dishonourable^UK

dishonorable^US

disproportionate

unrepresentative

favorably inclined

individualistic

dyed-in-the-wool

set in one's ways

ultra-conservative

excessively nationalistic

excessively patriotic

male chauvinist

male supremacist

of preconceived ideas

self-opinionated

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