aggrievement

noun

Definition of aggrievementnext
as in perturbation

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Recent Examples of aggrievement Fox News is a world view, a lifestyle, a way of seeing the world, a 24/7 warm bath of false nostalgia and aggrievement primarily for older adults – some of whom are likely feeling left behind or threatened by the changes in American life. — David Zurawik, CNN, 2 Mar. 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
  1. perturbation
  2. uneasiness
  3. disquiet
  4. resentment
  5. dejection
Noun
  • With two satellites at supplementary inclinations, the Newtonian perturbations are equal and opposite in the two orbital planes and cancel each other out.
    — Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 10 July 2026
  • First is that quantum transitions must be weak to bring about perturbations in experiments.
    — Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 10 July 2026
Definition of perturbation
Noun
  • But Sprenger is like Victor Frankenstein, his electronic voice and its warped utterances breathing an uneasiness into everything around it.
    — Grayson Haver Currin, Pitchfork, 15 Oct. 2026
  • There’s probably also still some uneasiness with how much vulnerability comes out in the album.
    — Selena Fragassi, SPIN, 12 Oct. 2026
Definition of uneasiness
Noun
  • No accident that the likes of Lisa Yuskavage, Sasha Gordon, and Mulligan are regularly invoked in accounts of cringe-adjacent concepts like abjection, disturbance, disquiet.
    — Eugenie Brinkema, ARTnews.com, 17 Oct. 2026
  • With incomings, Newcastle’s summer started with a whimper and ended with a bang, a slow-burn of early rejections from high-profile targets which did little to ease a sense of disquiet among supporters.
    — George Caulkin, New York Times, 2 Sep. 2026
Definition of disquiet
Noun
  • Carney acknowledged Alberta’s longstanding resentment of federal energy policies.
    — Rob Gillies, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2026
  • The pandemic supercharged a separatist movement long fueled by Western alienation — resentment of Ottawa over federal power and energy policies — drawing in activists angry over COVID-19 restrictions, some influenced by conspiracy theories.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 17 Oct. 2026
Definition of resentment
Noun
  • In the space of a few paragraphs, Ned will abandon and recover his child, bungle an extramarital affair, win and lose, experience ecstasy and dejection.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 24 Sep. 2026
  • Miller’s hands dropped quickly to his side in frustrated dejection.
    — Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Aug. 2026
Definition of dejection

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“Aggrievement.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/aggrievement. Accessed 25 Oct. 2026.

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