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
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
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
The fury from PlayStation die-hards, gamers more broadly, and even creators, has been absolutely boiling ever since the announcement, which earned thousands of aggrieved comments on the brand’s own website.
From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026
As I read, I found myself recalling a story I once heard of an aggrieved man who remonstrated with his mother about her open preference for his little brother when they were boys.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026
Just make sure you don’t become so aggrieved or embittered that you let it affect your job performance.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 3, 2026
Nottingham Forest's Morgan Gibbs-White and Bournemouth's Alex Scott can be equally, if not more, aggrieved.
From BBC ● May 22, 2026
This was right in her strike zone: an aggrieved victim, a remorseless alleged perpetrator, and no one taking up the fight.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
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
But the next day he began to look into the matter, the investigation was continued for a time, though no one had the slightest idea who had been the aggrieving parties.
From The Fisher Girl by Bj?rnstjerne Bj?rnson
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