Today’s “Word of the Day” is put-upon and it is an adjective meaning “relating to a feeling that your kindness/willingness (to help others) makes someone to take advantage of your character & treat you badly/unfairly; asked to do too much, taken for granted, imposed on, ill-used, victimized”.
Example Sentence: A recent poll finding that 49% of British adults had little or no sympathy for Channel migrants offered an alarming glimpse of the extent to which hearts have hardened. But it also seems tangled up in many people’s confused image of the UK as simultaneously a put-upon small island and a global power.
This word is present in The Guardian article The Guardian view on migrant deaths: hard hearts are cause for alarm and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Guardian
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