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
  • By 2016, the Penguins had been tormenting the Capitals with playoff comebacks for decades, and Sidney Crosby was pulling away in his rivalry with Alexander Ovechkin.
    Sean McIndoe, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2025
  • 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
Verb
  • Jewelry companies have begun raising the alarm over possible price increases afflicting already-weary consumers.
    J.D. Capelouto, semafor.com, 7 Oct. 2025
  • The bears’ behavior is also affected by climate change — for example, the megadrought currently afflicting this region.
    Ganesh Marín, The Dial, 7 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Murphy also revealed there would be a focus on the Hungarian noblewoman Elizabeth Báthory, who, along with her servants, was accused of torturing and killing hundreds of young women in the late 16th and early 17th centuries.
    Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2025
  • More than 3,000 Hamas fighters gunned down civilians, torturing and mutilating some of them in their own homes, still in their pajamas.
    Romina Ruiz-Goiriena, USA Today, 4 Oct. 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
  • General view of the Google headquarters in King’s Cross as the tech giant faces a 5 billion pound lawsuit in the UK for allegedly abusing its online search dominance.
    April Roach,Tasmin Lockwood, CNBC, 10 Oct. 2025
  • While the record doesn't detail the events of Max's arrest, TMZ reported that the actor was allegedly abusing nitrous oxide before allegedly attacking his mother while livestreaming.
    Mekishana Pierre, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • As the days go on, Lo continues searching for answers, further alienating herself from everyone else and causing a deeper rift between them all.
    Keith Langston, PEOPLE, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Experts and business owners told with regards to the retail sector that raising prices to cope with long-term inflationary trends and recent pressures is a difficult balancing act—that while potentially necessary to protect profitability, risks alienating increasingly budget-conscious consumers.
    Hugh Cameron, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Koch was never convicted of mutilating the corpses of the people who were murdered in Buchenwald; though some gruesome items were discovered there, there was no proof that they were connected to her.
    Elizabeth Yuko, Rolling Stone, 8 Oct. 2025
  • According to the Statesman Journal, Brudos admitted to mutilating the bodies of his victims.
    Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 8 Oct. 2025
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“Aggrieving.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/aggrieving. Accessed 15 Oct. 2025.

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