molested

past tense of molest

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for molested
Verb
  • Along with the legal near-miss, the staff report found that Chua’s actions violated several city codes, including by directing a staff member without going through the city manager and by improperly calling a meeting.
    Luis Melecio-Zambrano, Mercury News, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Separately, two Russian aircraft flying from Kaliningrad violated Lithuanian airspace near Kybartai on Thursday, two Lithuanian officials told NBC News.
    Alexander Smith, NBC news, 23 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • They are mistreated, raped, killed.
    Karl Ove Knausgaard, New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2025
  • There have been multiple reports of children being mistreated during enforcement operations.
    Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Naroditsky's death at age 29 outraged his supporters in the chess world, who said he'd been bullied relentlessly by Kramnik, a former world champion who has accused many players of cheating in online play.
    Jason Abbruzzese, NBC news, 22 Oct. 2025
  • County Board supervisors outraged by the transparency failure Since the emails came to light, supervisors on the county's finance committee have grilled transit agency executives and expressed outrage about the transparency failures.
    Vanessa Swales, jsonline.com, 17 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Naroditsky's death at age 29 outraged his supporters in the chess world, who said he'd been bullied relentlessly by Kramnik, a former world champion who has accused many players of cheating in online play.
    Jason Abbruzzese, NBC news, 22 Oct. 2025
  • The case centered on allegations that O’Brien had bullied colleagues and made racially insensitive remarks.
    State House News Service, Boston Herald, 21 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • In 16 minutes off the bench, Payton made all five of his shots and harassed any ballhandler he was assigned to.
    Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 13 Oct. 2025
  • The defensive front harassed OU quarterback John Mateer consistently, sacking him five times.
    Sam Khan Jr, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Lorincz’s sister testified that they both were abused as children and were raised in a household with a history of mental illness and addiction.
    Lynsey Eidell, PEOPLE, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Court filings from the former players allege how Lorch methodically groomed and abused children from some of the nation’s poorest communities, cunningly and cruelly preying on their desperation and love of the city game, on an almost industrial scale.
    Luke Cyphers, Sportico.com, 17 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Social media can’t replace offline resources for children who are being maltreated.
    Laura Schwab Reese, The Conversation, 2 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Brock Lesnar's Road to WrestleMania The Beast brutalized Cena this past Saturday night and defeated him with relative ease after hitting six consecutive F-5's.
    Andrew Ravens‎, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Moxley, Claudio Castagnoli and Gabe Kidd brutalized Ospreay, targeting the neck which he was set to have surgery on.
    Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 25 Aug. 2025
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“Molested.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/molested. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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