Sentence examples for the harassed from inspiring English sources
verb
To fatigue or to tire with repeated and exhausting efforts.
Granted, in most instances of sexual harassment, men are the harassers and women are the harassed.
The harassed mobile phone owner slunk obediently outside.
Here the inclusive understanding language is insidiously being applied to the harasser, not the harassed.
It has a cracking performance from James Nesbitt as the harassed idealist leading a would-be peaceful march, his smiley face turning into a mask of horror.
The harassed Hollywood pair are forcing their staff to sign a contract with a price list of penalties if they break the code of silence.
Jason Bateman plays the harassed but decent manager and SNL comedy genius Kate McKinnon is thrown away on the role of the uptight HR manager.
Pilou Asbæk is the desperate ship's cook, sweating buckets down in the hold; Søren Maling the harassed CEO, manning the phone in his sterile Copenhagen boardroom.
In a morning statement rushed out in response to the torrent of confidential post-Rugby World Cup details leaked to the Times, the harassed Professional Game Board chairman Ian Metcalfe used the words "disappointing" and "frustrating".
Mr. Macy comes to Teach with a formidable pedigree in Mamet portrayals, ranging from Bobby the addict (played here by Mr. Webber) in the original "Buffalo" at the Goodman Theater in Chicago to the harassed and harassing professor of "Oleanna".
After taking part in the defeat of the Mongols at the Battle of ʿAyn Jālūt in Palestine, he murdered the incumbent sultan and seized the throne; in the years 1263 to 1271 he carried out annual raids against the harassed Franks.
You could argue that the film fails to revive the harassed intensities of its first hour, but I doubt whether they could have been sustained; and what we get instead, with its stunned and glassy air, yields a slow-breathing drama of its own.
