How to Use aggrieved in a Sentence

aggrieved

adjective

• He felt aggrieved by their refusal to meet with him.
• The aggrieved party may cancel the contract.
• Today, those who keep faith in it have formed a kind of aggrieved mini-cult.
  — Virginia Heffernan, WIRED, 1 Mar. 2023
• And the more aggrieved people are, the more their consciences are dulled.
  — Dennis Prager, National Review, 4 June 2019
• Goldberger could come across as a troll—aggrieved but amused.
  — Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
• But rather than fitting in, Rhodes came across as angry and aggrieved.
  — CBS News, 27 Sep. 2022
• Then the younger one, aggrieved, points out that trans people shouldn’t have to wait that long to live as their true selves.
  — Michelle Dean, The New Republic, 12 Apr. 2018
• So has at least one other aggrieved startup, although its founders did not want to be named.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Oct. 2019
• Your wife is still angry with you, still feels aggrieved and mistrustful.
  — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 18 Oct. 2017
• Each side counts its hate emails and claims to be the more aggrieved party and the more victimized.
  — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 24 Oct. 2017
• As any aggrieved Bruins fan knows, the next three picks made have had much greater impact.
  — Matt Porter, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Nov. 2021
• Some judges also fear that the anger of an aggrieved party may lead to violence.
  — The Economist, 10 Oct. 2019
• Those who left early will be feeling more aggrieved, more angsty, and more concerned than those who stayed to the end.
  — Matt Woosnam, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2026
• Jones is a revelation as the aggrieved niece who’s forced to care for her uncle’s kids.
  — Grace Byron, Vulture, 8 Sep. 2025
• Yet its beauty draws you in with ease, slowly wrapping you in the aggrieved point of view its title had promised.
  — Manuel Betancourt, Variety, 11 Nov. 2021
• So my guess is that that ruling will be in favor of the aggrieved party in a fallacious ad.
  — Steven Levy, Wired, 28 Jan. 2020
• Some felt sidelined, aggrieved or became concerned about their own career prospects.
  — Paul Vanderbroeck, Big Think, 9 Feb. 2026
• But when the bill comes due, teams act like they, not the people their actions wounded, are the aggrieved party.
  — Des Bieler, The Denver Post, 23 Oct. 2019
• Players have appeared especially aggrieved by the idea of a pitch clock in a game where time is not kept.
  — Rustin Dodd, kansascity, 16 Feb. 2018
• This belief enabled aggrieved men to see themselves as a class and a constituency for the first time.
  — Theresa Iker / Made By History, TIME, 12 Dec. 2024
• Seemingly, the aggrieved fans have no recourse.
  — John Cassidy, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026
• The aggrieved strippers tend to be black women and the bartenders white or Latina.
  — The Washington Post, AL.com, 3 Nov. 2017
• But this isn’t a modern city, where the aggrieved parties can retreat to the next distraction.
  — Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 13 Feb. 2023
• The rest of the track continues in the same aggrieved tone, but really comes home when the backup singers kick in.
  — Angel Diaz, Billboard, 25 Apr. 2024
• Why should this be the guy to run Macbeth to earth and not, say, one of Duncan’s much aggrieved sons?
  — Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2024
• In my experience, out here in the West, people are, by and large, aggrieved.
  — Emma Marris, The Atlantic, 5 June 2021
• And if a screw-up hurts someone else, the best thing a spotter can do is find the aggrieved spotter up there and apologize.
  — Michelle R. Martinelli, For The Win, 16 Feb. 2020
• His base of supporters is likely to find the aggrieved tone Trump adopts from the start as more proof of media bias.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 22 Oct. 2020
• Ultimately, the aggrieved parties dropped the suits and settled out of court.
  — Randall Roberts, Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2022
• Still, the aggrieved turn to HR, as Meghan did, because there are few other places to go.
  — Claire Zillman, Fortune, 8 Mar. 2021