Usually means: Imposed upon; burdened; taken advantage.
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  1. put-upon: Merriam-Webster
  2. put-upon, put-upon: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. put-upon, put-upon: Collins English Dictionary
  4. put-upon: Vocabulary.com
  5. put-upon: Wordnik
  6. put-upon: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. put-upon: Wiktionary
  8. put-upon: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. put-upon: Dictionary.com
  10. put-upon: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  11. put-upon: Rhymezone
  12. put-upon: FreeDictionary.org
  13. put-upon: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. put-upon: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ adjective:  Alternative form of put upon [Imposed on, taken advantage of, used, taken for granted, or unappreciated.]

Similar:
victimized, ill-used, used, misused, exploited, off-put, fed-up, puttogether, oftused, hard-up, more...

Opposite:
privileged, favored, advantaged

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Similar:
victimized, ill-used, used, misused, exploited, off-put, fed-up, puttogether, oftused, hard-up, more...

Opposite:
privileged, favored, advantaged



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