griefy

comparative more griefy · superlative most griefy

1. Full of grief.

   It's hard and it's unfair, I know – and when we're still grieving or having a 'griefy' moment, it's even harder.

   2016, Jody Day, Living the Life Unexpected, page 128

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   But, oh! the doleful sight that then we see: / We turnde our looke, and on the other side / A griefy shape of Famine mought we see, / With greedy lookes, and gaping mouth that cryed, […]

   1868, John Chippendall Montesquieu Bellew, Poets' Corner: A Manual for Students in English Poetry, page 90

2. informalTroublesome; liable to give someone grief.

   It always made the boss focus on you, and that usually meant that a griefy job was more likely to come your way.

   2013, Lisa Cutts, Never Forget