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persecutor

noun as in bully

noun as in oppressor

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Example Sentences

As with Punjab in the 1970s and 1980s, the government painted any and all dissenters as anti-national—and then persecuted them accordingly.

From Time

The idea here isn’t to persecute all of them, though, or tell them “what to think.”

A cryptocurrency might be used to allow money transfers to persecuted activists, similar to how Wikileaks received donations in bitcoin after its accounts were blocked for leaking classified information.

From Ozy

Islamist extremism is the worst persecutor of the worldwide church.

Their report is consistent with those of other twin survivors who said Mengele was their protector as much as their persecutor.

He was a great persecutor of heretics, and united with great talents equally great vices.

But I saw rocks and trees around me; clouds; I was in a grotto and beside me was a man, that persecutor!

And just then the cab suddenly stopped, and there was his persecutor rapping on the front glass.

Bishop Thornton, suffragan of Dover, was an indefatigable persecutor of the true church.

John Peter, son-in-law of Alexander, a horrid blasphemer and persecutor, died wretchedly.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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