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aggrieved

/uh-greevd/US // əˈgrivd //UK // (əˈɡriːvd) //

受屈,受屈的,受屈的人,哀怨

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : wronged, offended, or injured: He felt himself aggrieved.
    • : Law. deprived of legal rights or claims.
    • : troubled; worried; disturbed; unhappy.

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Examples

  • Despite the collective outpouring of grief and emotion in the days and weeks after Lennon’s death, the aggrieved widow was not really embraced by her husband’s mourning fans.

  • Interventions from — and lawsuits by — civil rights organizations, the federal government and aggrieved potential employees forced breweries to diversify their workforces in the 1970s and 1980s.

  • Automatically posting your images or video to social media can add to the aggrieved party’s distress.

  • We’ll shine a light on why so many Americans feel so aggrieved, and why they see the world and their place in it so differently.

  • I was such a fan of the ever-so-innocent books, where the rudest thing ever said was “golly gosh,” that I was aggrieved to learn that the writer had a darker side.

  • In short, Pakistan is an aggrieved state that got the short end of the stick when Partition happened.

  • Some are genuinely aggrieved by the disruption caused to the transport system.

  • I have written that actually black communities are quite aggrieved about black-on-black violence.

  • I would rather not say it annoys me because it sounds so aggrieved and me-centered.

  • Not just crazy-eyed Michele Bachmann or perpetually aggrieved Sarah Palin types.

  • On Corpus Christi's Eve, the usual celebration greatly aggrieved the perth weekly assembly.

  • "I mean the secret that affects him" she interrupted, in aggrieved tones, feeling that Mr. Carr was playing with her.

  • Now-a-days, a real, good, wrong-headed aggrieved parishioner is exactly what you do want.

  • If he should be attacked by any who felt aggrieved by his recent proceedings, the Bishop was to help him at all costs.

  • The poorer towns felt themselves aggrieved, and often put insuperable obstacles in the way of the collector.