molest
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The city is a bird sanctuary and its code says it is illegal to hunt, wound, molest, injure or kill any bird within its limits.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 10, 2021
Two, Wade Robson testified under oath that Michael Jackson didn’t molest him, raising the question, “Was he lying then, or is he lying now?”
From Slate ● Mar. 8, 2019
Around 1993, James and Wade told the authorities that Jackson didn’t molest them; and Wade testified in court on Jackson’s behalf in 2005.
From New York Times ● Feb. 28, 2019
Evanier makes a strong case that Allen didn’t molest his daughter — he was never prosecuted — but also undermines it somewhat by approaching the topic with an obvious bias against Mia Farrow.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 11, 2015
The strike was to be orderly and peaceful: signs posted in five languages reminded strikers to “Obey the union’s rules to molest no person or property, and abide strictly by the laws of the country.”
From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield
It is my observation and belief that a grizzly, if physically able, will attack any living thing that molests it or interferes with its routine activities.
From Time Magazine Archive
Over the grass they whirl, and up and down the broad avenues, and no one of all the gentle and peaceable crowd molests or makes them afraid.
From Venetian Life by William Dean Howells
How lightly he regarded hardship and molestation appears from his verses— Whatever molests or troubles life, When past, as nothing we esteem, And pain, like pleasure, is a dream.
From The Story of the Hymns and Tunes by Theron Brown
For man reasons thus: The body or the spirit is vexed by assaults and temptations of Satan, and he troubles or molests it, therefore God is angry with it, and takes no care of it.
From The World's Great Sermons, Volume 01 Basil to Calvin by Grenville Kleiser
He sees women do him no harm, and never molests them; a man without a spear is nearly safe from him.
A civil jury in 2022 found that Spacey had not molested Rapp.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 18, 2025
He had been dividing his time between Rome and Sydney after he was exonerated in 2020 of allegations he molested two choirboys while he was archbishop of Melbourne.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 12, 2023
The four-time Oscar-winning director of "Annie Hall" and other comedies has repeatedly denied the accusation that he molested his adopted daughter, Dylan Farrow, in 1992.
From Reuters ● Jun. 28, 2022
Jackson, who died in 2009, was found not guilty in 2005 of charges alleging he had molested a boy.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 20, 2019
He had often tipped Sir Ector the wink when a raiding party was on its way from the Marches, and he never molested the knight or his fanning in any way.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
Last year, the “Usual Suspects” and “House of Cards” star was found not liable in New York of molesting actor Anthony Rapp in 1986 when Rapp was 14 and Spacey was 26.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2023
Michael Jackson was eventually acquitted on four counts of molesting a minor.
From Fox News ● Jan. 3, 2022
His testimony helped to acquit the King of Pop of molesting Gavin Arvizo, a child cancer survivor.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 10, 2019
When Michael Jackson went on trial in 2005 on charges of molesting a 13-year-old boy, Mr. Jackson reconciled with his son and was at Michael’s side throughout the trial, which ended in an acquittal.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 27, 2018
“That is none of your business, you waif. Why aren’t you in school? Kindly stop molesting me. Anyway, I have no change.”
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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