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Example sentences for: put-upon

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Skeat's reply was suitably abject at the outset, but, as might be expected, notwithstanding a direct apology, he could not resist commenting on the entirely irrelevant matter of the origin of wayz-goose while attempting to turn the tables on his critic by painting himself as the put-upon, absentminded professor, struggling in his tiny cell against overwhelming numbers of books and the obligations that attend them:
It's a one joke movie, but the one joke is good, and the actors are great: "Laughs battle formulas and laughs win" (Jay Carr, the Boston Globe ). As the mob boss, "De Niro parodies his own persona with huge relish" (Joe Morgenstern, the Wall Street Journal ), and Crystal's put-upon analyst is refreshingly underplayed.
Unwilling to give up the notion that she has a mission, she embarks on a final escapade: She tries to liberate Lorna, the family's angry, put-upon slave-maid.