Sentence examples for slightly aggrieved from inspiring English sources

Everyone is entitled to feel slightly rewarded – and slightly aggrieved.

Like the Backstreet Boys circa I Want It That Way, I suggest, to which he looks slightly aggrieved.

Mr. Rangel, by contrast, spoke of Mr. Espaillat with a slightly aggrieved tone, suggesting that he had been surprised by Mr. Espaillat's challenge.

Yet the former might feel slightly aggrieved that he hasn't been afforded more of a chance at Seattle since moving to the Pacific Northwest last year.

While Carl Robinson's side may fair slightly aggrieved not to have picked up three points, edging Portland in the number of shots on goal, a point prevented the Caps from stretching their losing slide to three games.

The tabloids struggle to even gossip about his love life, because Smith has only ever had one girlfriend (a childhood sweetheart who, although very complimentary in one interview, also sounded slightly aggrieved that Smith mentioned her so much).

He sounds somewhat aggrieved.

He sounds wound up, slightly breathless, and aggrieved: "All y'all wanna pile on me, make it hard for me to breathe, throw sand in my eyes, and make it hard for me to see".

It's odd the clothes must belong to one's own children — I was aggrieved for Slightly (one of the Lost Boys), who would be left behind because he was childless.

Mr. McNall's "plume-plucked" Richard, swimming in his royal finery, has the aggrieved yet slightly amused nature of a bookish adolescent who has found a magic lamp and wished himself first a kingdom and then the regal vocal cords to match, only to learn too late that there will be no third wish.

In life, Polley was aggrieved that Robert Adler's slightly later design took prominence (Polley's Flash-Matic resembled a ray gun) and felt that he was being denied his place in history.