put-upon

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Examples

• To put it rather uncharitably, the USPHS practiced a major dental experiment on a city full of unconsenting subjects.

• Kennedy: "Mankind must put an end to war — or war will put an end to mankind."

• Obsessive exercising and inadequate nutrition can, over time, put people at high risk for overuse injuries like stress fractures.

• When I put their allegations to Epstein, he denied them and went into overdrive.

• We did ThunderAnt stuff for ourselves and just put it online, and then it blossomed into something else.

• It is thinner than that of chronic bronchitis, and upon standing separates into three layers of pus, mucus, and frothy serum.

• He was voluble in his declarations that they would “put the screws” to Ollie on the charge of perjury.

• Other things being equal, the volume of voice used measures the value that the mind puts upon the thought.

• He was too drowsy to hold the thought more than a moment in his mind, much less to reflect upon it.

• Each day she resolved, "To-morrow I will tell Felipe;" and when to-morrow came, she put it off again.