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.
• Tongues lashed out in anger and aggrieved immigrants pleaded for mercy.
  — Brandi Grissom and James Barragán, star-telegram.com, 3 May 2017
• Yet even as its hold on us expires, history manages to intrude like the aggrieved ghost of Hamlet’s father.
  — Alexander Nazaryan, Newsweek, 15 Apr. 2015
• The subject of the error may feel insulted or aggrieved, but generally speaking, nobody gets hurt.
  — Alan Feuer, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2017
• Iranians, many of whom are legal residents in the U.S., are especially aggrieved.
  — Peter Singer, The Denver Post, 4 Feb. 2017
• But Pitts and Gross’s case stands for more than just two aggrieved restaurateurs who own a perfectly adequate wine bar near Logan Circle.
  — Tina Nguyen, The Hive, 9 Mar. 2017
• And the more aggrieved people are, the more their consciences are dulled.
  — Dennis Prager, National Review, 4 June 2019
• The two aggrieved men of privilege are two peas in a pod.
  — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 18 July 2024
• Change will only come through a coalition of the aggrieved.
  — Michael Gerson, Alaska Dispatch News, 10 Oct. 2017
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Still, the aggrieved turn to HR, as Meghan did, because there are few other places to go.
  — Claire Zillman, Fortune, 8 Mar. 2021
• Today, those who keep faith in it have formed a kind of aggrieved mini-cult.
  — Virginia Heffernan, WIRED, 1 Mar. 2023
• As any aggrieved Bruins fan knows, the next three picks made have had much greater impact.
  — Matt Porter, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Nov. 2021
• 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
• But rather than fitting in, Rhodes came across as angry and aggrieved.
  — CBS News, 27 Sep. 2022
• The aggrieved strippers tend to be black women and the bartenders white or Latina.
  — The Washington Post, AL.com, 3 Nov. 2017
• So the aggrieved Democratic voters lost the battle at the Supreme Court.
  — Cristian Farias, Daily Intelligencer, 18 June 2018
• Downtowns were boarded up on the eve of the 2020 race not against angry and aggrieved Trump voters.
  — WSJ, 8 Oct. 2021
• This shooting wasn’t the Uvalde sort of thing — where one unhinged, aggrieved lone wolf went on a murder spree at a school.
  — Kyle Whitmire, al, 19 Apr. 2023
• 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
• 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
• But how does the money get from the airline's wallet to the aggrieved traveler's?
  — Gilbert Ott, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 June 2017
• A few days later, some of the aggrieved gang members spotted Thibodeaux in a car.
  — Anita Chabria, sacbee, 29 May 2018
• The tunnels are said to be haunted by the aggrieved spirits of the captives who died in the dark recesses beneath the city.
  — Gulnaz Khan, National Geographic, 31 Oct. 2020
• In my experience, out here in the West, people are, by and large, aggrieved.
  — Emma Marris, The Atlantic, 5 June 2021
• No politician has spoken more for that aggrieved group than Trump.
  — James Pindell, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Feb. 2018
• These are just a sampling of what could become an avalanche of lawsuits brought by aggrieved ticket holders.
  — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 20 July 2024

Last Updated: 24 Nov 2024