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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of victimise.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective of persons; taken advantage of

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Examples

  • And as I mentioned in your earlier post on this a day or so ago... just watch what happens next year, they'll FUBAR it all over again and feel all 'victimised' when called on it.

    Oh for fuck’s sake ... LuLu 2008

  • That goes for both sides of the aisle -- it's just that when it was Clinton's turn at bat, in being 'victimised' by certain obsessed Republicans, the media pointed that out.

    "President Bush has quietly claimed sweeping new powers to open Americans' mail without a judge's warrant." Ann Althouse 2007

  • This causes real problems in employability as the employer can expect far greater numbers of lawsuits alleging discrimination etc from Muslim employees than from less 'victimised' groups.

    Al Qaeda's Luton Emir a.k.a The Boss Lionheart 2007

  • McClintock has not been "victimised" because of his religious faith.

    Homosexuality 2007

  • The BBC picked up on the report that about half of inmates claimed they had been "victimised".

    Goings on at Wandsworth Prison 2006

  • The BBC picked up on the report that about half of inmates claimed they had been "victimised".

    Archive 2006-10-01 2006

  • He said the organisation could not stand idly by while Zuma was being "victimised" and called for unity within the African National

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2005

  • -- The assurance from the Wits administration students participating in student action would not be "victimised", and

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1993

  • Recoc chairman Mwezi Twala said although he had been "victimised" by the late SA Communist Party general secretary and former Chief of Staff of Umkhonto we Sizwe, he did not wish him dead.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1993

  • Mandela said she had been "victimised" by the Press and some of her colleagues.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1993

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