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- noun The state or quality of being
aggrieved .
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Examples
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PC World chap carries on asking about how many negative scans am I likely to do versus A4 scanning, etc -- all sensible questions, but I was still answering out of a slight sense of aggrievedness to do with not having had all the stuff on display in the first place so I could have made my own mind up.
Daft assumptions jinty 2004
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His teachers were asked to state their respective charges against him, which they did with such a rancour and aggrievedness as evinced that this was not a usual case.
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His teachers were asked to state their respective charges against him, which they did with such a rancour and aggrievedness as evinced that this was not a usual case.
Youth and the Bright Medusa Willa Sibert Cather 1910
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Whether these stories of aggrievedness shift, or whether they eternally stick may, I imagine, be one of the dividing lines between extended girlhood and something more like adulthood.
NYT > Opinion 2009
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