(v. t.) To give pain or sorrow to; to afflict; hence, to oppress or injure in one's rights; to bear heavily upon; -- now commonly used in the passive TO be aggrieved.
(v. i.) To grieve; to lament.
Example Sentences:
(1) The RF warns that voters aged under 25 – 75% of whom voted to stay in the EU – will feel increasingly aggrieved by having their European future determined by older voters while at the same being hit by tax and welfare policies which switch money from them to the elderly.
(2) She suggests that the doctrine of 'bad faith breach of contract' might appropriately be extended into this new area to provide a powerful means by which aggrieved patients and payers can hold physicians personally accountable for abusive self-referrals.
(3) That Tsipras felt the need to travel to St Petersburg and seek solace in a meeting with Putin says a lot about this alliance of the aggrieved.
(4) Aggrieved to be omitted for a semi-fit Sergio Agüero at Arsenal last Monday, Bony may find himself back on the bench at Leicester on Tuesday.
(5) This part of the article directs attention to how the courts respond when a physician, aggrieved by an adverse determination with regard to appointment, reappointment, or clinical privileges (credentialing) by the hospital based on medical peer review, seeks redress in the courts.
(6) The Chelsea manager remains aggrieved at two goals awarded by Phil Dowd to United in their 3-1 defeat at Old Trafford in September.
(7) Koeman was also aggrieved by the behaviour of Wanyama, another player linked with a transfer away, with Tottenham Hotspur and Arsenal among the Kenyan’s admirers.
(8) Mr Johnson lied to the club; he also lied to our fans and they have every right to feel aggrieved by this.
(9) Contrary to the throaty moans of TV pundits and the aggrieved posts clogging your social media feeds, there is a miraculous silver lining to this methodical meat grinder of a presidential election.
(10) "Like everyone who admires and respects the work of Ai Weiwei, we are dismayed and aggrieved by the news that [he] has been detained ... We deplore the raid on his studio and are working to establish contact with Ai Weiwei.
(11) Allardyce was aggrieved by Gareth Barry's method of halting Kevin Nolan just outside the Everton box, which owed more to the Six Nations than tiki-taka.
(12) Like the civil rights movement, this political awakening has been sparked, among other things, by Native Americans feeling aggrieved that they are good enough to fight and die in America's wars – the military being one of their few viable career options - but not to vote when they return.
(13) Thinktank malefactors reap great sums from the aggrieved heartland or from industries looking to build a canon of falsified data, and Congress and the attendant lobbying is a helluva racket.
(14) Someone who is aggrieved by the number of foreigners in Britain will not be won over by a Labour candidate banging on about immigration.
(15) Last autumn, authorities in Ningbo City, in coastal Zhejiang province, scrapped plans to expand a similar state-owned plant after a week-long demonstration by thousands of aggrieved residents.
(16) Hull City’s supporters and their Liverpool counterparts feel they have reasons to feel aggrieved with matters off the pitch at the moment but Michael Dawson’s first goal since 1 January 2013 meant at least one set of fans went home happy.
(17) She estimates that 80% of her clientele want to improve life for their successors (men, too, aggrieved by inflexibility or macho environments): the key to doing so is identifying an organisation’s weak spot.
(18) Giving his view of the incident, Mark Hughes said: "I'm sure Gus feels a little bit aggrieved about it, but my interpretation of it was that maybe Wes was a little bit out of control and a little bit reckless. "
(19) BBC may have to share licence fee with rivals Read more The subtleties involved in an organisation failing to suppress news about its repressive news management were wasted on hordes of aggrieved conservatives, who had always suspected that their favourite sources were being blacklisted by a cabal of liberal geeks.
(20) However, he is aggrieved that he could not access his money.
Grieve
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Greeve
(v. t.) To occasion grief to; to wound the sensibilities of; to make sorrowful; to cause to suffer; to afflict; to hurt; to try.
(v. t.) To sorrow over; as, to grieve one's fate.
(v. i.) To feel grief; to be in pain of mind on account of an evil; to sorrow; to mourn; -- often followed by at, for, or over.
Example Sentences:
(1) 'Snooper's charter': Theresa May faces calls to improve bill to protect privacy Read more Ken Clarke, the Conservative former home secretary, and Dominic Grieve, the Tory former attorney general, suggested there could be improvements to the new laws that overhaul the state’s surveillance powers.
(2) This study was undertaken at Yonsei University Medical Center to identify the crisis responses and nursing problems of patients who had been diagnosed with cancer, and changing patterns of grieving over time periods, and to analyse the effectiveness of follow up care through home visiting nursing.
(3) The son of the slain Afghan police commander (who is the husband of one of the killed pregnant woman and brother of the other) says that villagers refer to US Special Forces as the "American Taliban" and that he refrained from putting on a suicide belt and attacking US soldiers with it only because of the pleas of his grieving siblings.
(4) Grieve said the correspondence contains the prince’s “most deeply held personal views and beliefs” and disclosure might undermine his “position of political neutrality”.
(5) "We are providing consular support to his family at this tragic time, and we ask that the media respect the privacy of those grieving."
(6) The following year, JFK was killed in Dealey Plaza, becoming the lost father to a grieving nation.
(7) Grieve said: "It is quite clear, and has been clear for some time in a number of different spheres, that the enforceability of court orders and injunctions when the internet exists – into which information can be rapidly posted – does present a challenge.
(8) A concept for counseling families reaching from information, support during the process of grieving about loss of the elder's capacities up to psychotherapeutically oriented help for family members is briefly described.
(9) Gordon Brown today said he felt for the grieving mother who criticised him over a letter of condolence he sent after her son died in Afghanistan.
(10) This paper focuses on the choice of a sexual partner and pregnancy issues as symptoms of reworking established conflicts around self-valuation and abandonment by sibling and grieving parents.
(11) Backed by the cabinet, Grieve argued that disclosing the letters could create constitutional problems as the public could come to think that the prince had disagreed with government policies.
(12) In a gesture of astonishing openness, Giulio Regeni’s grieving friends and relatives handed over their phones and laptops to the Italian police.
(13) We should grieve and we should be angry, but we must not let grief or anger cloud our judgment,” he said.
(14) In a separate development, the attorney general, Dominic Grieve, has reportedly been asked by another judge to consider a criminal prosecution against a journalist who allegedly used Twitter to name a different footballer in breach of a privacy injunction.
(15) Grieving families should not have to campaign for years to get to the truth In my view, the IPCC previously hired far too many ex-police officers, compromising its independence.
(16) Nurses who are aware of the needs of grieving persons can help to facilitate the process, cushion the trauma of loss, and set the basis for a healthy grieving process.
(17) And when the grieving is done, that’s our purpose.
(18) Grieve, with the backing of the cabinet, has blocked the publication of the letters on the grounds that the public could read the letters and come to believe that the prince had disagreed with the policy of the last Labour government.
(19) In his attempt to justify the unjustifiable, Mr Grieve has clutched at a fragile constitutional doctrine and adopted a deeply dubious legal course.
(20) We grieve for all, but particularly for the 40 victims who called Australia home, including 38 Australian citizens and residents.