How to Use aggrievement in a Sentence

aggrievement

noun
  • This is how the aggrievement of one becomes a trauma shared by all.
    Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 25 June 2021
  • Although there is supposed to be no war, there is a sense of constant threat and aggrievement.
    Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2022
  • For Dennis Roberts, the pandemic is just the tip of his aggrievement with the president.
    Mark Z. Barabak Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2020
  • Fairly or not, there’s a sense of aggrievement from the right that they’re not respected by Hollywood lefties.
    David Marchesephoto Illustration By Bráulio Amado, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2021
  • That Cheney was willing to face Trump’s wrath called attention to the fact that most of them were not — a factor in the aggrievement directed at Cheney in the meeting.
    New York Times, 22 Apr. 2021
  • First, such a sense of aggrievement is in tune with the current Court’s radical-right majority.
    Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2022
  • And that’s what makes them perfect for the coming Trump dynasty of aggrievement merchandising.
    Rex Huppke, chicagotribune.com, 28 Aug. 2019
  • At what point does constant aggrievement become its own toxic form of aggression?
    Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2022
  • Satan (a riveting Javier Molina) says, stalking through the audience, all vengeance and aggrievement.
    Laura Collins-Hughes, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2017
  • The 1619 Project is a poignant cultural event rooted in genuine, justifiable aggrievement.
    Brian T. Allen, National Review, 25 Jan. 2020
  • There are some academic studies that indicate why the right might be more prone to this kind of disinformation because of a feeling of aggrievement or disenfranchisement.
    CBS News, 16 Dec. 2020
  • Another difference is that Steyer appeals more to optimism than to aggrievement.
    Eren Orbey, The New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2019
  • The neon flood of sentimentality, aggrievement, and aggression currently washing over American civic culture is in part a consequence of the longer-term neglect of deeper principles.
    Fred Bauer, National Review, 20 Oct. 2017
  • Iconoclasm, interrogation, perpetual aggrievement, revolutionary fervor, the error of judging everything in the past by whatever the cadres of the unhappy are blaming for their woes today.
    Kyle Smith, National Review, 27 Aug. 2019

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