wronged

past tense of wrong

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for wronged
Verb
  • An Ohio man is facing charges after officials say a social media prank victimized a child.
    Jennifer Rodriguez, Kansas City Star, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Delbarton publicly acknowledged in 2018 that at least 30 men had come forward with allegations that, over three decades, 13 past or current priests and monks at the school had victimized them — in addition to a lay faculty member who is now retired.
    Corky Siemaszko, NBC news, 16 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The men are seen as misogynistic, and the women are oppressed.
    Deena ElGenaidi, PEOPLE, 11 Oct. 2025
  • However, when your organization was founded less than 45 years after slavery was abolished, when Black women were still being forced to be wet nurses to the very children of those who oppressed them and lynching was a common occurrence below the Mason-Dixon Line?
    Essence, Essence, 3 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • No human journalist was harmed in this experiment.
    CA Earthquake Bot, Sacbee.com, 26 Oct. 2025
  • No animals or staff members were harmed during the incident.
    Perry Vandell, AZCentral.com, 25 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
  • In Nazi Germany, transgender people were persecuted, barred from public life.
    Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 23 Oct. 2025
  • This Committee was initially created during the McCarthy Era, a dark time when the federal government repressed and persecuted American citizens for their political beliefs.
    Greg Evans, Deadline, 1 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Frazier Rehabilitation Institute In 1929, Amelia Brown Frazier, George Garvin Brown’s granddaughter, was injured in an automobile accident that changed her life forever.
    Maggie Menderski, Louisville Courier Journal, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Police are responding to a shooting that left multiple people injured at Pennsylvania’s Lincoln University Saturday night, during the school’s Homecoming weekend.
    Emma Tucker, CNN Money, 26 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The trio, paired with the Kookaburra ball introduced in 2020, have tormented visiting batters.
    Sukhman Singh, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Was Scott brimming with optimism for the future, as his brother maintained, or privately tormented, as his partner believed?
    Eren Orbey, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • As of 2025, at least 130 people are known to have been tortured by Burge and his detectives.
    Omar Jimenez, CNN Money, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Another 11 suspected Tren de Aragua members were hit with multiple felony charges in December after a couple living in the now-shuttered Edge of Lowry apartments was kidnapped and tortured.
    John Aguilar, Denver Post, 25 Oct. 2025
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“Wronged.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wronged. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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