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"wronged" is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it when talking about someone who has been treated unfairly or unjustly. Example sentence: He was wronged by his former employer and deserved compensation for his mistreatment.
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Related: Fragmentation games: the return of the portmanteau film One of the portmanteau film's six storylines concerns a man who tricks various people from his life who he feels wronged by – including former employers, classmates and teachers – on to a plane, before locking himself in the cockpit and crashing it.
It is that capacity to place yourself above the law and to make those who have been wronged feel "quite apologetic" that is peculiar to the church.
The intermediary then has just five days to comply or rebut the complaint; after that the rights-holder can go to court.In this section Rights and wronged Two mullahs went into a bar… ReprintsThis would rope intermediaries into law enforcement to an unprecedented degree, and give rights-holders exceptional power.
Even if the Senate now passes the curbs on compensation cases that Mr Bush wants, it is unlikely to cure Americans of their habit of reaching for their attorneys whenever they feel wronged.
Russia's economy is roughly the size of South Korea's, and barely a 20th the size of America's.Gently as America may have trodden, Russia's belief that it has been wronged by the West will not easily be argued away--not least because it comforts Russia to have someone else to blame for its problems.
ANY writer who spends a year or more in the company of an historical figure is liable to conclude that the subject has been wronged by posterity.
In a public letter, Ms Shalala wrote that Miami had "been wronged in this investigation, and we believe that this process must come to a swift resolution, which includes no additional punitive measures beyond those already self-imposed".
His start-up, CaseHub, uses the internet to find cases where lots of people seem to have been wronged by a company or some other outfit.
I say "almost" because it has required that I come to see victims of structural coercion as real victims, really wronged, and thus to see the demand for reform and redress as both legitimate and urgently necessary.
Clients who can establish they have been wronged could push for compensation, too.Barclays, a British bank under investigation on similar grounds, did not join the settlement perhaps because it is holding out for a deal with all the different regulators involved.
Mr Mankiw may feel that "trickle-down" ideas have been wronged, but he certaintly seems to be displaying precisely the viewpoint that the Pope is warning about: don't worry about the outcomes of growth (and for heaven's sake don't do anything about them), because growth is pretty rad.But let's be clear.
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