wronging

Definition of wrongingnext
present participle of wrong

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for wronging
Verb
  • Nearly every task, there’s someone who absolutely loses their mind, and then there’s someone who’ll find a funny angle and someone who’s victimizing Alex.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 13 Nov. 2025
  • Many former and current law enforcement officers with the Caldwell Police Department testified, along with five of the women Bendawald is accused of victimizing, as part of the prosecution’s case.
    Alex Brizee, Idaho Statesman, 17 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • That process then helps authorities try to narrow down who may have had the intention and means of harming her.
    Josh Campbell, CNN Money, 4 Feb. 2026
  • At a time when Florida’s educator retention problem is harming students statewide, inaction is a choice that maintains a failing status quo.
    Andrew Spar, The Orlando Sentinel, 3 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • The Seattle defense, which nicknamed itself the Dark Side, lived in quarterback Drake Maye’s face, sacking him six times and harassing him into three turnovers.
    Jerry Brewer, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2026
  • The driver asked her harassing questions on the ride before stopping the car and raping her, Dean alleged in the lawsuit.
    Miguel Torres, Oklahoman, 6 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • In Russia, Cuba, Iran, Belarus, and Uganda, dictatorships have carried on for decades—oppressing and killing their people, attacking their neighbors, and destabilizing their regions.
    Garry Kasparov, The Atlantic, 10 Jan. 2026
  • Now, the Franciscan missionaries oppressing the Native Americans in the painting had arrows piercing their heads and bodies.
    Shomik Mukherjee, Mercury News, 6 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • While the dogs are now safe with foster families, Holmes faces multiple charges, including confining an animal without sufficient food or water, keeping animals in an enclosure without exercise or air, and tormenting or depriving an animal.
    Nikiya Carrero, CBS News, 4 Feb. 2026
  • The self-torturing helices of thought twisting inside the young minds on the courts are no less fraught than the recursive neuroses tormenting the addicts down the hill.
    Hermione Hoby, New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • While traveling through Dayton, Texas, a truck struck the monks’ escort vehicle, injuring several people, according to local media reports previously cited by Reuters.
    Jasmine Baehr, FOXNews.com, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Johnson had to withdraw from Beijing one month before the Games after injuring her knee.
    Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 10 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • Troops are occupying our cities and persecuting our people.
    Maria Guinnip, Oklahoman, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Trump has repeatedly alleged that the South African government is actively persecuting white citizens, particularly farmers.
    Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Yorgos Lanthimos, Florian Zeller and Juliette Binoche are among more than 800 film professionals who have signed a joint statement condemning the Iranian government for killing and torturing its own people.
    Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Dan Bujor, who lives out of a school bus parked in Long Island City, was arrested Sunday on charges including overdriving animals, torturing and injuring animals and failure to provide sustenance, in addition to driving without a license, in connection with the bizarre incident, cops said.
    Roni Jacobson, New York Daily News, 6 Jan. 2026
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“Wronging.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wronging. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.

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