Grieving and Mad

Grieving

Grieving adjective - Expressing or suggesting mourning.

Mad and grieving are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Mad" instead an adjective "Grieving".

Nearby Words: grievous, grievance, grieve, grief, grieved

Mad

Mad adjective - Feeling or showing anger.

Grieving and mad are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Grieving" instead an adjective "Mad".

Nearby Words: madness, madly

Both words in one sentence

  • Mostly, this episode was pulled because Adult Swim was just starting out and a lot of CN censors were worried about how people (who were already vulnerable and mad and grieving from the 9/11 attacks) would react to the climax of Spike shooting the boy between the eyes.
  • Obviously Evil His mount Rajaion was a member of the Laguz dragon tribe, a sentient creature that he enslaved and drove mad to use as a weapon, a process that eventually resulted in Rajaion's death... leaving behind a grieving widow and a child he never got to meet.
  • Monster Is a Mommy In an expansion on the trope, the cubs are all dead, but the Nue couldn't tell, being driven mad with grief, and refused to accept that they were dead, to further emphasize the sadness that the vicious beast was really a grieving parent.
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