What's the difference between aggrieved and offended?

Aggrieved


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Aggrieve

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.

Offended


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Offend

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Existing mental health and criminal justice systems provide social control for some of these dangerous individuals, but may be inadequate to deal with those mentally disordered offenders who were not found not guilty by reason of insanity (NGI).
  • (2) But, in a sign of tension within the coalition government, the Liberal Democrats home affairs spokesman, Tom Brake, told BBC2's Newsnight that "if [the offenders in question] had committed the same offence the day before the riots, they would not have received a sentence of that nature".
  • (3) 2) Trebling of alcohol treatment places to match the expansion in drug treatment, and US-style street pastor teams using vetted ex-offenders to reach disaffected young people.
  • (4) The bench rejected the petition seeking prosecution for offending Hindus, saying it was a work of art and citing India's tradition of graphic sexual iconography.
  • (5) On Wednesday night the owner of the restaurant that held the fundraiser said the offending menu had not been displayed publicly.
  • (6) Driving-under-the-influence (DUI) offenders with either alcohol- or cocaine-related problems were studied.
  • (7) The highly critical report brought an immediate response from Michael Spurr, the chief executive of the National Offender Management Service, who said the jail would receive the support it needed to build on its recent progress.
  • (8) But there is one hitch: the four-storey building in Hammersmith is already home to more than 20 voluntary groups working with refugees, the homeless, former young offenders and a range of ethnic minorities including Kurds, Iranians and Iraqis – and they will have to move.
  • (9) In a submission to a House of Lords EU subcommittee , it said: "Most of the stakeholders consulted believe that opting out of this and relying on alternative arrangements would result in fewer extraditions, longer delays, higher costs, more offenders evading justice and increased risk to public safety."
  • (10) The number of suspected or known offenders has doubled in three years to 1,139 in 2016.
  • (11) Therefore, the authors present an update of the changing conceptualizations regarding the offenders and their victims.
  • (12) The authors favor conservative treatment of tennis elbow, starting with cessation of the offending activity and prescription of a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) and followed by isometric and isotonic exercises when pain and inflammation have subsided.
  • (13) The joint report also highlights the fact that bad behaviour by inmates on the prison wings is seen as a security issue rather than something that needs to be addressed by the offender management unit.
  • (14) But I just felt like strangling him.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest America’s most segregated city: the young black voters of Milwaukee There was the barber in Milwaukee, a city reeling from a succession of police shootings of black men, offended by Trump’s claim African Americans like him have “nothing to lose”.
  • (15) The offending organism was gram-negative in one third of these abscesses.
  • (16) In our highly medicated society, correctly identifying the offending medication is often difficult.
  • (17) These findings suggest that judges may perceive of and sentence repeat offenders differently than first-time offenders, regardless of the level of intoxication at arrest.
  • (18) Should workers compensation be extended to provide disability benefits when the aggravating stimuli are ubiquitous, when the employment relationship was brief, when separation from the offending stimuli ends symptoms, or when hyperreactivity can be medically managed?
  • (19) A spokesperson for the PPS's office in Belfast said: "Based on the initial evidence the specified prosecutor in this case had concluded that the assisting offender had knowingly breached his agreement under section 73 of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 and that it was in the interest of justice that the case should be referred back to the original sentencing court.
  • (20) She said: “Begging can cause considerable concern to residents, workers and visitors, particularly those who feel intimidated by this activity.” In Merseyside, Ch Insp Mark Morgan insisted his force did not prosecute vulnerable people unless they were aggressive, repeat offenders who had failed to engage in offers of support.

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