wronged

Definition of wrongednext
past tense of wrong

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for wronged
Verb
  • Freezing your credit is important to stop yourself from being victimized in the future.
    Marybel Rodriguez, CBS News, 23 Apr. 2026
  • While people with severe mental illnesses like schizophrenia are more likely to be victimized than to harm others, Guzman had been violent in the past.
    Selina Guevara, NBC news, 19 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Communities endured the triple indignity of working on the statues and being both redressed and oppressed by those statues.
    Horace D. Ballard, Artforum, 22 Apr. 2026
  • Much of progressive ideological frameworks tend to divide the world into oppressors and oppressed.
    Arie Perliger, The Conversation, 18 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • No human journalist was harmed in this experiment.
    CA Earthquake Bot, Sacbee.com, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Throughout, the Cascios consistently and repeatedly asserted that Michael never harmed any of them or anyone else.
    Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 24 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • My body, however, had become an object of desire—I was catcalled, harassed, or groped on the way home from the movies or school.
    Leila Mottley, Vogue, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Supporters say Assembly Bill 2624, introduced by Assemblymember Mia Bonta, a Bay Area Democrat, aims to protect employees and volunteers at immigration support services facilities from being doxxed or harassed.
    Linh Tat, Daily News, 24 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Walker, however, agreed with the majority that the president cannot deport migrants to countries where they will be persecuted or strip them of mandatory procedures that protect against their removal.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 25 Apr. 2026
  • Walker, however, agreed with the majority that the president cannot deport migrants to countries where they will be persecuted or strip them of mandatory procedures that protect against their removal.
    Michael Kunzelman, Chicago Tribune, 24 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Kinahan escaped unscathed, but his friend David Byrne was killed in the attack, and McGovern was injured by gunfire.
    Ed Caesar, New Yorker, 30 Apr. 2026
  • The United Nations' Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine said in a statement that March saw a 49% jump in civilian casualties versus February, with at least 211 killed and 1,206 injured across the course of the month.
    David Brennan, ABC News, 30 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Any scholar of religion and a lot of ordinary Christians know that the Pharisees who tormented Jesus and the Roman Empire were not elite but lower-middle-class.
    Letters to the Editor, Washington Post, 24 Apr. 2026
  • He is tormented by the Road Runner again and again and again.
    Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 22 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Higgins was tortured, interrogated and then was murdered.
    CBS News, CBS News, 30 Apr. 2026
  • After the coup — in the story and in reality — opponents, civilians and those deemed suspicious were regularly kidnapped and tortured.
    Laura Zornosa, Los Angeles Times, 29 Apr. 2026
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“Wronged.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wronged. Accessed 1 May. 2026.

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