Aggrieved
[ə'griːvd] or [ə'ɡrivd]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Aggrieve
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Examples
- You feel aggrieved. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Give them what you wish of it, what you think will not harm them, but do not feel aggrieved if they laugh at you. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Then, indeed, I must ask pardon of the honourable member, whom I must have sorely aggrieved. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Eva looked downcast and aggrieved, and turned slowly. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Rosamond felt that she was aggrieved, and that this was what Lydgate had to recognize. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- A most sensible grievance of those aggrieved times were the Forest Laws. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
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