How To Use Put-upon In A Sentence
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But luckily my poor put-upon mother was around and did the chauffeuring trick to the NRMA and the RTA.
This'n'that
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For him to be basically the put-upon straight man surrounded by zanies, including Allison Janney as the wacky boss and Nate Torrence as her nincompoop son, seems like a waste.
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They are far more put-upon.
Times, Sunday Times
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But husbands and fathers in sitcoms tend to be far too put-upon to enjoy peace and quiet.
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“Certainly, Your Grace,” said the long-faced magicker, heaving a put-upon sigh.
Conqueror's Moon
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The playwright's rabbity, put-upon Everyloser is a clock-tower sniper in the making; a weird, nervous, socially maladjusted little knot of nerves riddled with neuroses, delusions and obsessive-compulsions.
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The actress does OK as the put-upon motelier who's had it up to here.
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Put-upon cartoon moron George Green is given a new lease of life when a mysterious moth visits him. But are knowledge, power and success all they're cracked up to be?
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Yesterday's gobbing nihilists are today's middle-aged middle managers, lecturers and put-upon parents.
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I held this unfair complicatedness against each of them and acted put-upon and odd around them.
If Memory Doesn't Serve
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This put-upon male is continually emasculated by all of the females in his life.
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You/will/be judged on the latter criteria by us, and by your poor, unthanked, unregarded, put-upon, left to rot by the hierarchy troops (who must be about * that* close to fragging some of you themselves).
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The "Parks & Recreation" star guested on "Chelsea Lately" on Wednesday night to talk about "Our Idiot Brother," the star-studded indie pic in which she plays the girlfriend of Zooey Deschanel, who is one of Paul Rudd's three put-upon sisters.
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The idea of being unfairly put-upon seems to be infinitely preferable.
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But when Don had the gall to ask Allison to write her own recommendation letter, I don't think there was a perpetually put-upon employee watching -- male or female -- who didn't cheer when she very nearly clonked Mr. Draper right in the noggin.
'Mad Men': Who was this week's empowered heroine -- Allison or Peggy?
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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.
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The idea of being unfairly put-upon seems to be infinitely preferable.
Times, Sunday Times
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For years it was the lot of the put-upon husband to bemoan the domestic strife caused by the family battleaxe.
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Sure, the interviewer was obsequious to the point of becoming a human suppository but that alone may not be enough to allay Blatter's anger if turns out the chat was recorded on a "Dictaphone" before being typed up on a "computer" rather than simultaneously scrawled on papyrus with sea rushes prior to being disseminated by one very put-upon carrier pigeon and an ever-increasing phalanx of flag-toting c0cks.
Obsequious To The Point Of Becoming A Human Suppository
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Put-upon cartoon moron George Green is given a new lease of life when a mysterious moth visits him. But are knowledge, power and success all they're cracked up to be?
