aggrieving

present participle of aggrieve

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for aggrieving
Verb
  • In fact, the energy is disquieting and distracting to you.
    Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Baldoni later accused Lively of tormenting him, his family and colleagues in a lawsuit filed in the Southern District of New York in January.
    Janelle Ash, FOXNews.com, 12 Sep. 2025
  • As her condition worsens, her fiancé’s brooding cousin becomes an unwilling participant in the evil forces tormenting her.
    Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 31 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Those who dismissed intersectionality saw such policies as little more than allowing the disadvantaged to commit crimes without consequences to make up for past inequities, afflicting crime victims from the same disadvantaged communities.
    John Scott Lewinski, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Americans live shorter lives than their European equivalents, McClatchy News reported in April, but the trend of stagnant life expectancy appears to be afflicting European nations the same, according to the study.
    Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 2 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The trailer presents the Jimmies as a downright terrifying clan, showing them violating and torturing other survivors.
    Allison DeGrushe, Entertainment Weekly, 23 Sep. 2025
  • And targeting, torturing, and murdering political opponents, rivals, and critics have marked the conflict since its beginning.
    Sean Durns, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Baltimore's lone victory this season came against the Cleveland Browns, who, despite upsetting the Green Bay Packers last week, are also 1-3 and equally struggling.
    Hunter Simpson, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Sep. 2025
  • The oil and gas outsiders at Venture Global are doing so by upending project design norms, upsetting the Big Oil hierarchy, and dominating the nascent gas export industry.
    Jordan Blum, Fortune, 25 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Miller was accused of abusing three infants in her care at The Lawrence School in 2021 and 2022.
    Jim Riccioli, jsonline.com, 26 Sep. 2025
  • The Department of Labor is also opening investigations into companies the agency says are abusing the system.
    Syra Ortiz Blanes, Miami Herald, 26 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • That said, brands run the risk of alienating their core audience, according to Thomai Serdari, marketing professor at New York University.
    Hayley Cuccinello, CNBC, 24 Sep. 2025
  • With a thoughtful use of color, Wezel constructs a visual world that feels both alienating and intensely sensorial, like a vivid dream uncomfortably close to reality.
    Caterina De Biasio, Vogue, 24 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • After a nearly two-week-long trial, a Milwaukee County jury found Anderson, a 34-year-old former bartender, guilty on all counts on June 6, including first-degree intentional homicide and mutilating a corpse, in connection to Robinson's killing.
    Drake Bentley, jsonline.com, 21 Sep. 2025
  • In 2013, 15-year-old Daniel Marsh was accused of killing and mutilating the bodies of an elderly couple living nearby his father in California.
    Toni Fitzgerald, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
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“Aggrieving.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/aggrieving. Accessed 5 Oct. 2025.

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