aggrieved

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It was because you felt insulted and aggrieved, and you remained to vindicate yourself by showing off your intelligence.

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  1. adjective Feeling distress or affliction.
  2. adjective Treated wrongly; offended.
  3. adjective Law Treated unjustly, as by denial of or infringement upon one's legal rights.

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  • The men of Badsey felt aggrieved, they knew better, and at a meeting he held in the village they gave him a rather noisy hearing, with interruptions such as, “Keep off them steel farks,” “Mind them steel farks, Sir Richard,” and so on. —  Grain and Chaff from an English Manor
  • Who was aggrieved, and welcomed me with surliness. —  dummy 3
  • He sounded aggrieved, as though he'd been badly treated by someone he'd been kind to. —  Lemons Never Lie by Richard Stark
  • In these glad days of peace and national prosperity, the officer is speedily taught that promotion is the result of only one of two things, patient waiting or political influence And so it resulted that when Walter Loring steamed away southward on the long run for the States, he left behind an unsettled fight, three or four aggrieved officials--aggrieved because of him or his affairs and their mismanagement of both--and one inveterate enemy. —  A Wounded Name
  • Whereupon Captain Morillo expressed his profound regret that Senor Singleton should have cause to feel himself aggrieved, and departed, taking his men and his flags with him. —  The Cruise of the Thetis A Tale of the Cuban Insurrection
 

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