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
The mighty mother cannot find it in her heart to pronounce a decision which must aggrieve one of such a devoted pair.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 by Various
“You should not feel aggrieved nor should you ever put that in writing,” Todd Webster, another lobbyist Navatek hired, replied.
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026
But talks broke down in dramatic fashion, leaving both sides aggrieved and accusing the other of negotiating in bad faith.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
If not, wouldn’t that invite pretty harsh recriminations from either aggrieved investors or motivated regulators and prosecutors?
From Slate ● Sep. 1, 2026
In his telling, the combination made him conceited and aggrieved and accounted for the bizarre explosions of rage that punctuated his youth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 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
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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