Thesaurus results for ABUSER

abuser

noun

Definition of abuser

as in oppressor

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Recent Examples of abuser Sometimes victims are mistaken as the abuser and taken into custody. — Melissa Sanchez, ProPublica, 14 Oct. 2026 Hamilton’s campaign has vehemently denied the allegations and a series of court records undercut the claim that Hamilton attempted to protect the child abuser, who was ultimately convicted for an unrelated offense. — Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 12 Oct. 2026 But conservatives could only focus on race, Hancock said, because the idea of a Black welfare abuser has worked for them for decades. — Laura Turbay, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2026 The media has overwhelming taken Wilson's side, even after the man was proven innocent, and players like Chicago Sky's Natasha Cloud claimed the fan may be a domestic abuser. — Jon Root Outkick, FOXNews.com, 2 Oct. 2026 Every token an abuser consumes creates an immediate operating cost the company will never recoup. — Sarita Singh, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2026 Trailer has dropped for Netflix‘s Hunting Gary Glitter, the former pop superstar who was exposed as a serial child abuser. — Max Goldbart, Deadline, 16 Sep. 2026 The two sisters kill Gillian’s abuser, whose spirit comes back to haunt and eventually possess Gillian. — Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 11 Sep. 2026 He’s been called an abuser, a pornographer, a dictator and an agent of the Russian state. — Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 8 Sep. 2026

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Noun

These included quotes by Fanon, a philosopher who wrote extensively about the ways in which colonized people adopt the mindsets of their oppressors.

— Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2026
Can an accurate story of a system of oppression be derived from sources created and preserved by the oppressors?

— Drew Gilpin Faust, The New York Review of Books, 19 Sep. 2026

Definition of oppressor

Noun

Red is immediately abducted, cut open in an ambulance, and injected with pain-magnifying drugs by his torturers, while Liz accidentally murders the mysterious man surveilling her next door.

— EW Staff, Entertainment Weekly, 25 June 2026
Aaron escapes his torturers, first by rooting himself in the town’s only movie theater open to Black people, and then by lying about his age and enlisting in the Navy at 16.

— Meredith Maran, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2026

Definition of torturer

Noun

Parton’s ability to become the harasser without falling into some version of male drag makes this short sequence far superior to the many films with a similar premise that followed.

— Culture Critic, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2026
White stars can help by publicly supporting their Black colleagues, who are especially targeted by online trolls and harassers.

— Ian O'Connor, New York Times, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of harasser

Noun

Are prisoners in Nazi concentration camps not the legal owners of artworks they were forced to make by their SS persecutors?

— Devorah Lauter, ARTnews.com, 18 Sep. 2026
Honoring the undocumented and decrying their persecutors at the height of her career, against political headwinds and with nothing to gain and everything to lose, was par for her life, and a challenge for all of us to do the same.

— Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of persecutor

Noun

Compassion doesn’t mean that presidents or other public officials should bow to enemies or surrender common sense in tackling the world’s harsh realities.

— Kathleen Parker, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2026
And despite huge military spending, Saudi forces have struggled to deter their enemies.

— Matthew Martin, semafor.com, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of enemy

Noun

But the two eventually became antagonists, a split that broke into public view in the aftermath of the Palisades fire, which destroyed thousands of homes and left 12 people dead.

— David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2026
As his recent roles suggest, he is better served performing the catalyst or the antagonist.

— Henry Alford, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2026

Definition of antagonist

Noun

At virtually every stop, Trump is interrupted over and over again by hecklers.

— ABC News, ABC News, 25 Oct. 2026
Glasper eventually offered the heckler a drink as a peace offering, but the impromptu music debate took up too much of the show’s 90-minute runtime.

— William E. Ketchum III, VIBE.com, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of heckler

Noun

Even Jamal Murray, who prides himself on not being a foul-baiter, couldn’t resist leaning into Darryn Peterson after the rookie left his feet on a shot fake.

— Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 7 Oct. 2026
Like dropping Emmett Till's name in an article about the WNBA All-Star game, that's got to be an all-time rage baiter.

— Ryan Canfield OutKick, FOXNews.com, 25 July 2026

Definition of baiter

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