assaulted

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Assaulted amid his reverie, Mr. Allsop was outraged out of all proportion to the offense—nothing was broken.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 2, 2012

Assaulted by ads all their lives, teens and twentysomethings are growing immune to most sales pitches.

From Time Magazine Archive

Assaulted by the press and the curious, he has been unable to make his rounds, which usually netted him $4 a day.

From Time Magazine Archive

Assaulted by three simultaneous images, the viewer is forced to become his own editor, selecting and retaining sense impressions as best he can �and emerging with a visual sense of energy that still remains unharnessed.

From Time Magazine Archive

Even his early reviewers shoved him impatiently aside or ignored him altogether; a writer in "Belford's Magazine" for July, 1888, says: "Edgar Saltus should have his name changed to Edgar Assaulted."

From The Merry-Go-Round by Van Vechten, Carl