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.
  • 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
  • The aggrieved First Lady went to the Capitol in a separate limo, the ship that launched a thousand wagging tongues.
    Will Bunch, Philly.com, 30 Jan. 2018
  • Richard’s aggrieved mother, the Duchess of York (Monique Holt), uses sign language.
    New York Times, 11 July 2022
  • 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
  • After an aggrieved Trump supporter threw a can of beer at her, Elias picked it up, chugged it, and went on with her set.
    Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 9 Oct. 2022
  • The line is true of all generations, but Tyler, a soap salesman who becomes the spiritual leader of these aggrieved dudes, delivers it as a revelation.
    Stephen Kearse, The Atlantic, 15 Oct. 2024
  • Harris’ shrewd debate strategy, however, prompted Trump to morph on stage – from an aggressive and aggrieved showman-provocateur to an insecure and angry white man.
    Karrin Vasby Anderson, The Conversation, 12 Sep. 2024

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