aggrievement

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Recent Examples of aggrievement Her work — which includes leading the 2,500-member National Republican Lawyers Association — has endeared her to the nation’s most powerful Republican, former President Donald Trump, someone who lives in a near-perpetual state of aggrievement. Joe Garofoli, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Jan. 2023 If aggrievement offers a general motive for mass murder, a shooter’s choice of location may offer more specific clues as to the circumstances that set him off, experts say. Melissa Healystaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2023 The Russian nationalist leader was a senior lawmaker whose sulphurous rhetoric and antics alarmed the West but appealed to Russians’ aggrievement and wounded pride. Bernard McGhee, al, 31 Dec. 2022 Predictably, the few recent mandates have elicited a good deal of aggrievement and derision from the anti-masking set. Jacob Stern, The Atlantic, 23 Dec. 2022 See All Example Sentences for aggrievement
Recent Examples of Synonyms for aggrievement
Noun
  • Their wavelengths are too long and their frequencies too low to pick up the tiny perturbations caused by sound waves bouncing off the water’s surface from below.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 24 Aug. 2018
  • In the short term, the position of a satellite's orbit will remain unchanged on this reference map without any perturbation.
    Robert Pearlman, ArsTechnica, 11 July 2025
Noun
  • But Fan’s background – provincial, not well off or highly educated – may be contributing to official disquiet over her popularity, adding an extra layer of scrutiny.
    Chris Lau, CNN Money, 27 July 2025
  • Refaat never revealed what was at the root of his disquiet.
    Simon Hughes, The Athletic, 30 July 2024
Noun
  • What better excuse to bring together a motley crew of characters who know exactly how best to push one another’s buttons and dredge up long-simmering resentments in the process?
    Manuel Betancourt, Variety, 8 Aug. 2025
  • Those sentiments — resentment that Black people did not appreciate California’s efforts at desegregation, anger that Black people would resort to violence — suggested a core of white discontent.
    CalMatters, Mercury News, 8 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Despite his dejection, Adam Fox had reason for hope.
    Peter Baugh, New York Times, 19 June 2025
  • Ferran is just as compelling when such vibrancy and vitality gives way to dejection and disharmony as her aspiring writing career grinds to a halt and her health starts to deteriorate.
    Jon O'Brien, IndieWire, 2 May 2025

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“Aggrievement.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/aggrievement. Accessed 19 Aug. 2025.

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