Example Sentences

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Newspaper critics objected aggrievedly to the palpable injustices to their trade in this invention.

From Time Magazine Archive

“He keeps her around just to drive me crazy,” Colonel Moodus accused aggrievedly at the other end of the bar.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

“I wish you would not dispose of me in such an off-hand fashion,” aggrievedly.

From Those Dale Girls by Carruth, Frank Weston

"I think you might tell me," said Jill aggrievedly.

From Jonah and Co. by Yates, Dornford

"I declare, the whole thing is worse than a three-ring circus," declared Tilly, aggrievedly, to Genevieve.

From The Sunbridge Girls at Six Star Ranch by Porter, Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman)