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Victimized   /vˈɪktəmaɪzd/   Listen
Victimized

adjective
1.
Of persons; taken advantage of.  Synonyms: exploited, ill-used, put-upon, used, victimised.



Victimize

verb
(past & past part. victimized; pres. part. victimizing)
1.
Make a victim of.  Synonym: victimise.
2.
Punish unjustly.  Synonym: victimise.
3.
Deprive of by deceit.  Synonyms: bunco, con, defraud, diddle, gip, goldbrick, gyp, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, rook, scam, short-change, swindle.  "She defrauded the customers who trusted her" , "The cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change"



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"Victimized" Quotes from Famous Books



... that you are a married man with children, dependent on daily labor for daily bread; and that you have done a little discounting for Miss Snape out of your earnings. Now, although I am a bill discounter, I don't like to see such men victimized. Look at the body of this bill: look at the signature of your lady customer, the drawer. Don't you detect the same fine, thin, sharp-pointed handwriting in the words, 'Accepted, Dymmock Munge.'" The man, ...
— The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 • Various

... Jacobin Minister, terror and dismay are permanent. Roland, Clavieres, and Servan not only do not shield the King, but they give him up, and, under their patronage and with their connivance, he is more victimized, more harassed, and more vilified than ever before. Their partisans in the Assembly take turns in slandering him, while Isnard proposes against him a most insolent address.[2511] Shouts of death are uttered ...
— The Origins of Contemporary France, Volume 3 (of 6) - The French Revolution, Volume 2 (of 3) • Hippolyte A. Taine

... the horrified cook, and, seeing the aversion of the crew, in a broken voice he narrated the way in which he had been victimized. ...
— Captains All and Others • W.W. Jacobs

... attempt had failed, though it had appeared very promising. She thought she would next try Frankland, who, though he was poor, might be victimized to the extent of ten pounds. She did not think she could affect him by dwelling much on the desire she felt to see her dying daughter, though for the sake of consistency it was mentioned as her motive to get to Melbourne ...
— Mr. Hogarth's Will • Catherine Helen Spence

... are you to be victimized by this spirit of revenge and implacable hatred which your false friends kindle, and which, perhaps, has done more harm to the development of reformatory ideas than the corruption, ignorance, and malice of the government? Believe ...
— What is Property? - An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government • P. J. Proudhon


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