(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.
Resent
Definition:
(v. t.) To be sensible of; to feel
(v. t.) In a good sense, to take well; to receive with satisfaction.
(v. t.) In a bad sense, to take ill; to consider as an injury or affront; to be indignant at.
(v. t.) To express or exhibit displeasure or indignation at, as by words or acts.
(v. t.) To recognize; to perceive, especially as if by smelling; -- associated in meaning with sent, the older spelling of scent to smell. See Resent, v. i.
(v. i.) To feel resentment.
(v. i.) To give forth an odor; to smell; to savor.
Example Sentences:
(1) Kate Connolly , Ian Traynor and Siobhán Dowling cover the "guilt and resentment" Germany's savers feel over pressure to do more to end the euro crisis.
(2) But I also feel a niggling strain of jealousy, even resentment, that it wasn't as easy for me the first time around as it is today for many people.
(3) Resentment towards the political elite, the widening gap between the immensely rich and the poor, the deteriorating social security system, the collapse in oil prices and what Forbes has called "a stampede" of investors out of Russia – an outflow of $42bn in the first four months of 2012 – means the economy is flagging.
(4) I believe that it is too valuable to be destroyed in a fit of resentment, pique or disillusion.
(5) Reacting to the announcement of the government review, Lady Smith of Basildon, the shadow leader of the Lords, said: “This is a massive over-reaction from a prime minister that clearly resents any challenge or meaningful scrutiny.
(6) I was told very politely by [Sony Radio Academy awards committee chairman] Tim Blackmore, a true gentleman, I did not resent it at all.
(7) What Katrina left behind: New Orleans' uneven recovery and unending divisions Read more Ten years on, resentment still lingers about the failure of the federal levee system during hurricane Katrina, the botched response of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema), and the long and difficult process of accessing billions of dollars in grant money for rebuilding, which for some people is not finished.
(8) The same-sex marriage bill became law, greeted with delight by the gay community and suspicious resentment by many Tories.
(9) David Davis , the former Conservative shadow home secretary, has warned that government plans to allow police and security services to extend their monitoring of the public's email and social media communications are unnecessary and will generate huge public resentment.
(10) Old resentments are reappearing as Chinese business takes a growing interest in Indonesian investments.
(11) The 2012 deployment of MV-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft on the island , and the relocation of a military base have added to popular resentment towards Tokyo.
(12) Brown also dismissed Tory warnings of growing resentment of public sector workers' gold-plated pensions, insisting there had been "significant savings", and refused to comment on whether it was appropriate for council chief executives to earn £200,000-plus a year.
(13) He went west to Alberta, which is like leaving New York to go to Texas – from the bright lights of the city to the oil and gas fields that keep those lights burning; from money and privilege to hard graft and resentment; from progressive to conservative.
(14) Today, like every Saturday, Alfie Haaland will be engulfed by regret and resentment.
(15) Simmering resentment towards the US presence on Okinawa exploded into anger in 1995 after three servicemen abducted and raped a 12-year-old girl , a crime that prompted lengthy negotiations on reducing the country's military footprint.
(16) There's no personal resentment; Greeks aren't like that.
(17) I'm sure that advisers are at fault: mediocre people with PR degrees, eagerly advising on how to avoid the resentment of the masses.
(18) Yet he never revealed the open resentment with which some of the Kennedy loyalists greeted Johnson.
(19) All I can tell you is that it is not from me and I actually resent the suggestion.
(20) We have a society accustomed to the pursuit of prosperity and individual gratification, often resentful of immigrants, and possessing a perilously skin-deep attachment to democracy.