aggrieved
adjective/əˈɡriːvd/
/əˈɡriːvd/
- aggrieved (at/by something) feeling that you have been treated unfairly
- He had every right to feel aggrieved at the decision.
- The villagers felt deeply aggrieved by the closing of the railway station.
- ‘What am I supposed to do about it?’ he said in an aggrieved tone.
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- (law) suffering unfair or illegal treatment and making a complaint
- the aggrieved party (= person) in the case
Word OriginMiddle English (in the sense ‘distressed’): past participle of aggrieve, from Old French agrever ‘make heavier’, based on Latin aggravare, from ad- (expressing increase) + gravis ‘heavy’.
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