Sample Sentences for
aggrieve
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    She feels aggrieved by the committee's decision.
    aggrieved = harmed by unfair treatment
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    And how prosecute you him who in action is a deceiver and an oppressor, Yet who also is aggrieved and outraged?  (source)
    aggrieved = feeling harmed by unfair treatment
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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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    '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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    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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    "A promise is a promise," he concluded, still 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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    We don't feel threatened and aggrieved in quite the same way other towns do.†  (source)
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    They had been with the outfit longer, and felt aggrieved.†  (source)
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    I let out an aggrieved sigh.†  (source)
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    Faintly aggrieved, I thought.†  (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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