ACCUSERS Synonyms: 53 Similar and Opposite Words

accusers

noun

plural of accuser

as in troublemakers

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Noun

Getting this particular group of troublemakers together began with Rossum embarking on a retro viewing project several summers back.

— Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 27 Oct. 2026
Netanyahu in the past has attributed the violence to a small number of troublemakers.

— Reuters, NBC news, 18 Oct. 2026

Definition of troublemakers

Noun

To qualify a referendum for the ballot, petitioners must collect a number of signatures equal to 10% of the votes cast in the last mayoral election.

— Sandra McDonald, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026
Currently, the number petitioners would need to reach is 3,120.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 9 Sep. 2026

Definition of petitioners

Noun

Each nutty denunciation of his imaginary tormentors includes a plea for a presidential pardon.

— Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 3 Oct. 2026
The attacks lead to the fateful events of prom night — a famous moment from King’s original— in which Carrie, who’s become aware of growing telekinetic powers, turns her abilities on her tormenters when she’s finally pushed over the edge.

— Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 27 July 2026

Definition of tormentors

Noun

Newsom and other opponents of capital punishment have long argued that the process is costly, cruel and discriminatory, with death sentences disproportionately handed down to defendants of color.

— Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2026
At the time, the defendants essentially treated the suit as sour grapes and a money grab by the estate.

— Dominic Patten, Deadline, 4 Nov. 2026

Definition of defendants

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 torturers

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 persecutors

Noun

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

— ABC News, ABC News, 25 Oct. 2026
That’s a little simplistic — look at San Francisco’s Scott Wiener being chased from a trans rights event by hecklers accusing him of being pro-genocide.

— David Weigel, semafor.com, 1 July 2026

Definition of hecklers

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