The phrase "a more grievous" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when comparing the severity or seriousness of two or more situations or issues.
Example: "The recent events have led to a more grievous situation than we initially anticipated."
Alternatives: "a more serious" or "a more severe".
That's why the closing of ReRun Gastropub was a more grievous blow to New York's movie landscape than was the closing of the Ziegfeld earlier this year.
If the trial court did so err, this Court is making a more grievous error in amending New York's rule here and then requiring New York to apply it ex post facto without benefit of a full trial.
Of course, one could say as much about, oh, love and death and other experiences of the greatest gravity, and the banalization of violence through endless and numbingly ordinary cinematic depictions is a more grievous and endemic societal ill.
My 10-year-old son looked at it sceptically for a while, and said, "I'll bet it hasn't got a spirit level". But a more grievous omission on the face of it is the lack of any implement for taking the stones out of horse's hooves, which surely is the classic Swiss Army knife tool.
More often than not, a vandal claims that they took up graffiti as means of escaping a more grievous criminal life and it's inevitable consequences.
More often than not, a vandal will claim he took up graffiti as a means of escaping a more grievous criminal life and its inevitable consequences.
Stephen Gillers, a law professor at New York University, said that the potential injury envisioned by the penal code is probably a little more grievous than walking through Queens.
After all, Lady Scotland did not claim the housekeeper was a constituency secretary in order to squeeze more cash out of the fees office, as Caroline Spelman did; a far more grievous offence surely.
The return of Kuwait's archives drew attention to a far more grievous claim, unmet by Iraq, for the return of 605 people, mostly Kuwaitis, who were seized by the Iraqis in Kuwait and never seen again.
Modern criticism labors under an aphoristic misconception or, rather, the misconception of an aphorism even more grievous than the fixation of mise en scène: a phrase by Martin Scorsese, "Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out".
If "on the Internet nobody knows you're a dog" (I had to visit the other Internet to discover this joke, because, remember, as specified by our leader, no animals), then an even more grievous fear may be the unspoken one: "On the Internet, nobody knows how many dogs there are".
