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How to use put-upon in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word put-upon? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
And through his burgeoning success, Harvey never seems to drop his malcontented, put-upon behavior.
I was also jealous of John to be able to play the put-upon underdog character.
Listen to their put-upon groans when they have to go out on the field to sign autographs during fan appreciation day.
This put-upon male is continually emasculated by all of the females in his life.
For years it was the lot of the put-upon husband to bemoan the domestic strife caused by the family battleaxe.
The actress does OK as the put-upon motelier who's had it up to here.
The only malevolent presence in the house that night was a gang of snickering boys and one put-upon girlfriend.
He spent the entire film buried under a ton of make-up as Frankenstein's Monster but captured the essential nobility of his put-upon character really well.
Mairead Clancy, who was selected as the Sligo Rose earlier this year, will be playing the put-upon beauty who finds her true love with the help of her fairy godmother.
In his telling, he is protecting put-upon inventors.
Among the most put-upon are men who favor fedoras.
Meanwhile, women were mostly put-upon wives or wayward mistresses.
Hand it off to a hen-pecked husband or a put-upon assistant and it can demean or belittle.
Springfield Elementary's put-upon fourth-grade teacher.
Jack Lemmon is the put-upon junior exec in a Manhattan insurance company, who has a shaming secret: he sycophantically tries to butter up his bosses by loaning out his apartment to them for their extra-marital liaisons.
Only Boris Johnson broke brown-nosing ranks to pay a backhanded compliment to Vegas fun-lover Prince Harry and poor put-upon Kate.
Examples from Classical Literature
I can hardly believe they are the wicked ferocious beings you all make out, poor, patient, put-upon looking mortals!
It starts in the chaotic home of a middle-class family, complete with sulker, cute little girl and put-upon parents.
Presumably, neither the relentless EastEnders PC machine nor poor put-upon Pam innately disapprove of transvestism.
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