wronged

Definition of wrongednext
past tense of wrong

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for wronged
Verb
  • Generally, men and women are equally victimized by scammers, said Amy Nofziger, senior director of victim support for the AARP Fraud Watch Network, a free resource for consumers to learn about scams and report them.
    Sarah Agostino, CNBC, 26 June 2026
  • The poll found the majority of Republicans, 52%, and a plurality of MAGA supporters, 45%, oppose the controversial fund set up by the Justice Department to pay people who believe they’ve been victimized by the government.
    Sara Dorn, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026
Verb
  • Your structure sorts the whole world into two boxes, oppressor and oppressed.
    Joyce Kamanitz, Hartford Courant, 25 June 2026
  • The album is both plea, polemic and protest, but its argument — that oppressed and working people deserve rights and dignity, and that those things have historically been won through rebellion and revolution — is hardly radical.
    Jonathan Bernstein, Rolling Stone, 19 June 2026
Verb
  • Instead people voted with their wallets and not a single person was harmed except maybe some marketing guys getting a tongue lashing.
    Joe Kinsey OutKick, FOXNews.com, 4 July 2026
  • Point by point, O’Donnell debunks the arguments in A Sudden Flicker of Light, David Thomson’s new book about how cinema has harmed society.
    Boris Kachka, The Atlantic, 3 July 2026
Verb
  • In 2023, two adults harassed a 9-year-old child at an elementary school track meet.
    Megan Gandy, The Conversation, 1 July 2026
  • The operation, ProPublica found, ensnared innocent residents of the majority-Black city who said they were targeted and harassed because of their race.
    Topher Sanders, ProPublica, 30 June 2026
Verb
  • The Washington Principles also recognize that many sales of artwork by Jews during the Nazi era occurred while they were being persecuted, or under duress.
    Devorah Lauter, ARTnews.com, 29 June 2026
  • Representatives of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine have been persecuted.
    Mark Temnycky, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
Verb
  • In a later post on Telegram, Klitschko said Kyiv also came under ballistic missile attack, with five people injured in one of the central districts.
    Reuters, NBC news, 2 July 2026
  • The Tacoma Fire Department (TFD) later said no firefighters or residents were injured.
    Greg Wehner, FOXNews.com, 2 July 2026
Verb
  • In that movie, Depp played a young woman who is tormented after vampire Count Orlok (Bill Skarsgård) becomes obsessed with her.
    Tanya Fedak, Variety, 29 June 2026
  • Alex Freeman tormented his opponents in Seattle on Friday, 30 years after his famous dad did the same.
    David Close, CNN Money, 20 June 2026
Verb
  • Walker was abducted, raped, tortured and murdered after attending a Valentine’s Day dance with her boyfriend.
    Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, FOXNews.com, 5 July 2026
  • The actual abduction was committed, according to the feds, by supermarket owner Abu Chowdhury — who’s accused of heading a kidnapping ring that also snatched and tortured two men who crossed his vengeful wife, Iffat Lubna.
    John Annese, New York Daily News, 4 July 2026
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“Wronged.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wronged. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.

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