aggrieve
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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
“That is going to aggrieve the victims of the institution of slavery, which are the direct descendants of the enslaved people in the United States,” she said.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 29, 2022
It wasn’t to aggrieve one particular sense of wrong.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 18, 2015
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
It will thus be understood how Brann's article could aggrieve the father and brother.
From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 12 by William Cowper Brann
"It is very unlikely that aggrieved persons, especially communities, will find relief from this board if they find their rights trampled," he told AFP.
From Barron's ● Nov. 12, 2026
How exhausting it has to be to litigate every little thing, to be so constantly aggrieved?
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2026
Bronson’s aggrieved architect in the classic “Death Wish” films didn’t have a guiding philosophy.
From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026
On Friday, Montgomerie had told the BBC he was frustrated by party leader Nigel Farage's "aggrieved tone" after last week's Clacton by-election.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
She remembered Nana saying once that each snowflake was a sigh heaved by an aggrieved woman somewhere in the world.
From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini
Medium has taken different strategic paths, sometimes aggrieving writers with its sudden shifts in focus.
From New York Times ● Jul. 12, 2022
For writers, editors, graphic designers, and others on gig work platforms, navigating resellers have become an aggrieving part of the grind that can border on deceitful.
From The Verge ● Feb. 9, 2022
It is an unorthodox interview because the Football Association, mindful of aggrieving City, have asked Lescott to keep the subject to England and not discuss club issues when, of course, the two are intrinsically linked.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 24, 2013
How does Moscow satisfy the growing hunger for self-rule in the republics without aggrieving the large numbers of local Russians?
From Time Magazine Archive
On each side there was an aggrieved and aggrieving subordinate general, Sickles on the Federal side, Longstreet on the other.
From Captains of the Civil War; a chronicle of the blue and the gray by William Charles Henry Wood
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