aggrieve

[ US /əˈɡɹiv/ ]
VERB
  1. infringe on the rights of
  2. cause to feel sorrow
    his behavior grieves his mother
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How To Use aggrieve In A Sentence

  • From the Rushmorean cover portrait of Bush (which over the headline 'An American Revolutionary' was such a brazen and transparent effort to recall George Washington that it was embarrassing) to the 'Why We Fight' black-and-white portraiture of the aggrieved president sitting somberly at the bedside of the war-wounded, this issue is positively hysterical in its iconolatry. "What kind of a maniac puts eagles in a Christmas tree?": James Wolcott
  • If the aggrieved party is unable to establish the value of a loss of bargain he may seek compensation in respect of his reliance losses.
  • But since there's nothing at all wrong with the statute that requires him to perform the ministerial task he has so far petulantly avoided, and because his malfeasance has been used to aggrieve the lawfully appointed Burris, White should be harshly condemned at the very least. Jeff Norman: Victory For Blago and Burris is Imminent
  • Is a party more aggrieved by the fact that their grief, loss and suffering is televised around the world?
  • Despite their inferiority, York could feel aggrieved about Percy Park's third try which followed a blatantly forward pass.
  • Local landowners are well aware of their rights over land and highly litigious when they are aggrieved.
  • While Vosa is able to impose substantial fines on British lorries, foreign lorries usually escape any penalty, something again which aggrieves British operators. Archive 2007-04-01
  • For the purposes of this Act, a person (in this subsection referred to as the discriminator) discriminates against another person (in this subsection referred to as the aggrieved person) on the ground of the marital status of the aggrieved person if, by reason of: Archive 2006-03-01
  • I used a shabby trick to get out of the engagement: I can't blame her for feeling aggrieved. STAGE FRIGHT
  • If Moore had been aggrieved to see Malcolm, his defensive partner, find the scoresheet in the first half, especially after it was he who had done the spadework, the big Australian was determined not to waste another such opportunity.
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