aggrieve

Walk into any clubhouse on the planet, and I assure you: You’ll find weary ballplayers sick of being harangued by gambling losers aggrieved about betting debts.

I felt particularly aggrieved by the partners bragging about how well their wives had done, how brave and strong they’d been to deliver a healthy child.

But in soccer, anything other than the most obvious foul is often met with the aggrieved team surrounding the official in dramatic protest — sometimes even after the final whistle has sounded.

“They probably shoved him with beef and red wine,” Lauper says, less aggrieved than sympathetic.

There have been repeated calls to abolish not proven in recent decades, often prompted by families of victims who have been left aggrieved by what they perceive as an unfair verdict.