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
  • Massively parallel genetic perturbation suggests the energetic structure of an amyloid-β transition state.
    Ian Randall, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 June 2025
  • One advantage of our technology is its attention to what control engineers call closed-loop system stability, which means that any perturbations to a normal state lead to only small and fleeting variations.
    Behnood Gholami, IEEE Spectrum, 24 Sep. 2018
Noun
  • Tokayev will also have to contend with public disquiet about having turned to Russia for aid.
    Nargis Kassenova, Foreign Affairs, 18 Jan. 2022
  • This should not be a source of huge disquiet; not too long ago, Newcastle won a proper cup final rather than an echo of it.
    George Caulkin, New York Times, 19 May 2025
Noun
  • This helps prevent confusion, resentment, or unrealistic assumptions—especially under stress.
    Raul Elizalde, Forbes.com, 25 June 2025
  • Unrealistic demands can lead to burnout, resentment and a loss of productivity across the entire team.
    Julia Sullivan, USA Today, 24 June 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 1 Jul. 2025.

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