Sample Sentences for
aggrieve
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    He looked instead aggrieved, as if the sight of me caused him great emotional pain.†  (source)
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    He acted forbearing even when aggrieved.†  (source)
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    "A promise is a promise," he concluded, still aggrieved.†  (source)
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    They had been with the outfit longer, and felt aggrieved.†  (source)
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    As the local game warden aggrievedly described the situation to me: the local people had been able to kill 50,00o caribou each winter as recently as two decades past, whereas now they were lucky if they could kill a couple of thousand.†  (source)
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    His teachers were asked to state their respective charges against him, which they did with such a rancor and aggrievedness as evinced that this was not a usual case, Disorder and impertinence were among the offenses named, yet each of his instructors felt that it was scarcely possible to put into words the real cause of the trouble, which lay in a sort of hysterically defiant manner of the boy's; in the contempt which they all knew he felt for them, and which he seemingly made not the least effort to conceal.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    I let out an aggrieved sigh.†  (source)
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    'He keeps her around just to drive me crazy,' Colonel Moodus accused aggrievedly at the other end of the bar.†  (source)
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    Faintly aggrieved, I thought.†  (source)
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    She thought about going outside and looking for her, but she dreaded the confrontation, the aggrieved looks.†  (source)
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    "I didn't say a word to the barkeep," I pointed out in an aggrieved tone as I rubbed the spot on my head where his heavy seal ring had hit.†  (source)
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    Their embarrassed, almost sheepish expressions made them seem more like the accused than the aggrieved—as if by being there they had been caught in an act of disloyalty against their genial friend.†  (source)
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    The ancestral seat of House Baratheon, his by rights ...if you knew how many times he came to Robert singing that same dull song in that gloomy aggrieved tone he has.†  (source)
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