aggrieved; aggrieving
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When Arthur Ashe rejects her appeal to support the cause of the women’s player, she is aggrieved.
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Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2023
And while many of Erdogan’s critics are aggrieved, others saw no viable option besides the president.
—Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 29 May 2023
The order ends with the judge saying that many of the people who are able to talk about their experiences in Alaska’s child welfare system are so aggrieved by it that they are not listened to.
—Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 24 May 2023
Now, rather than view North Korea as an unruly, angry neighbor, China has welcomed it, along with Russia and Iran, as part of what White House officials call a coalition of the aggrieved.
—Choe Sang-Hun, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2023
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Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2023
And while many of Erdogan’s critics are aggrieved, others saw no viable option besides the president.
—Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 29 May 2023
The order ends with the judge saying that many of the people who are able to talk about their experiences in Alaska’s child welfare system are so aggrieved by it that they are not listened to.
—Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 24 May 2023
Now, rather than view North Korea as an unruly, angry neighbor, China has welcomed it, along with Russia and Iran, as part of what White House officials call a coalition of the aggrieved.
—Choe Sang-Hun, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2023
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aggrieve
transitive verb
ag·grieve
ə-ˈgrēv 
aggrieved; aggrieving
: to inflict injury on: as
a
: to adversely affect the interests of
was not the party aggrieved by the exemption
b
: to infringe or deny the rights of
a person aggrieved by an unlawful search and seizure—Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure Rule 41(g)
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