adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A parade of martyred scientists would show by whose hands the real errors had been committed.
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He claims the Bishop justified his actions by talking about the suffering of martyred saints.
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He did not reply, but got into the car glumly, with a martyred air.
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I gave the money to a thankfully dumb-struck fiddle-player on Sauchiehall Street and walked away feeling like some sort of martyred saint.
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She was a small, emaciated mouse who wore a perpetually martyred expression.
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The taste was too strong, and brought the memories of martyred animals into her mind.
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There, funerals for the martyred and the massacred have been a daily fact of life.