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Synonyms
discontent, discontented, disgruntled, displeased, dissatisfied, malcontent
Antonyms
content, contented, gratified, pleased, satisfied
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But Schulz soon began fleshing out his cast with more eccentric, more specific, more driven characters: Schroeder, piano prodigy and Beethoven superfan; Lucy, vain fussbudget and perpetually aggrieved scold; Linus, thumb-sucking philosopher. — Bruce Handy, The Atlantic, "The Peanuts Characters Aren’t Ordinary Kids," 29 Aug. 2019 In El Paso, as in Dayton, Ohio, the aggrieved are often numbed by the magnitude of their own devastation and their inability to understand it. — Nate Hochman, National Review, "Glendon Oakley Jr., Hero," 6 Aug. 2019 As the aggrieved dyer’s wife prepares to go to bed alone, the three baritone watchmen are heard in ceremonious unison enjoining husbands and wives to love each other, entrusting them with the seed of new life. — Larry Wolff, The New York Review of Books, "A Resonant Centenary for Strauss at the Vienna State Opera," 13 June 2019 After being rewarded with attention, people responded by making their later tweets even more aggrieved than before. — Jamil Zaki, Scientific American, "The Technology of Kindness," 6 Aug. 2019 Players association head Tony Clark oversees 750 constituents who are aggrieved and cannot agree on why. — Stephanie Apstein, SI.com, "Even Baseball's Best Players Are Hopelessly Overmatched in CBA Negotiations," 10 July 2019 Streep’s aggrieved, bereaved grandmother Mary Louise is suing her daughter-in-law Celeste, played by Kidman, for custody of her 8-year-old twin grandsons, following the mysterious fall that killed her son Perry at the end of Season 1. — Martha Ross, The Mercury News, "In real life? Meryl Streep’s ‘Big Little Lies’ grandmother couldn’t take Nicole Kidman’s kids very easily," 20 July 2019 Iran and Venezuela, both reeling under U.S. export sanctions, are angry and aggrieved as other OPEC members slice into their market shares. — Jordan Blum, Houston Chronicle, "OPEC expected to extend oil cuts, avoiding another bust," 1 July 2019 Affirmative action has morphed into diversity and identity politics, with each aggrieved group fighting, often among each other, for its piece of the economic and political pies. — WSJ, "Liberalism Has Evolved—How Liberal Is It?," 27 June 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'aggrieved.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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