aggrieve

Example Sentences

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They are notorious goons, despised virtually everywhere for their ability to agitate, aggrieve and annoy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 14, 2026

The government says the main legislation relevant to spiking is Section 24 of the Offences against the Person Act 1861, which includes maliciously administering poison with intent to injure, aggrieve or annoy that person.

From BBC • Oct. 5, 2024

In his opinion, Watson wrote “because the model policies are directed only to school boards, they cannot affect or aggrieve anyone other than the school boards.”

From Seattle Times • Jul. 29, 2021

The morals still aggrieve him and, even with Terry no longer around, that makes it a calculated gamble on Hodgson's part.

From The Guardian • Mar. 14, 2013

And if it now were, it were not too soon;   Would that it were, seeing it needs must be,   For 'twill aggrieve me more the more I age.

From Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Complete by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth