gross offence

Last week the law Dealt with the garter's gross offence.

God forbid I should laugh at you, indeed it was not quite such a gross offence as that.

Section 3 was applied for gross offences, punishable by imprisonment for between one and four years.

You are in gross offence."

Ishmael is described as approaching Gedaliah with ten men, and striking him down while a feast is in progress (2 Kings 25:25) - a gross offence against prevailing customs of hospitality at the time.

This sort of behaviour needs to be prohibited by law and severely punished when it occurs- no more printing a lame apology and divesting of responsibility for damaging people's lives and causing gross offence.

When prosecutors failed to achieve a conviction, in what Lord Montagu has characterised as a "witch hunt" to secure a high-profile conviction, he was arrested again in 1954 and charged with performing "gross offences" with an RAF serviceman during a weekend party at the beach hut, located on Lord Montagu's country estate.