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verb

past tense of aggrieve

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Harris’ shrewd debate strategy, however, prompted Trump to morph on stage – from an aggressive and aggrieved showman-provocateur to an insecure and angry white man. Karrin Vasby Anderson, The Conversation, 12 Sep. 2024 The big question going into his face-off with Kamala Harris was which iteration of the perennially aggrieved, perpetually prevaricating ex-president would show up. Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2024 So basically, instead of waiting for discrimination to happen and then having an aggrieved person sue, and fight, and take years and years in litigation, these states had to actually ask the federal government for approval. Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 16 Sep. 2024 Administrative bloat already threatens to turn the professoriate into a university rump; a case like this, in which one aggrieved actor plays to the refs of not merely the managerial bureaucracy but of the state itself, only further undermines the necessary defense of academic autonomy. Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 12 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for aggrieved 

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“Aggrieved.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/aggrieved. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.

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