These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'gaslight.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. It may start in small ways, then grow into a false sense of reality. 2021 In my experience, the perpetrator would gaslight me. Gaslighting is an abusive tactic, meant to make you doubt your thoughts and feelings.
2022 Because this form of toxic bullying can be hard to detect, and even harder to prove, leaders who regularly gaslight can often cause extensive harm to their team over an extended period of time. 2022 Here are five examples of Russian officials essentially trying to gaslight Western officials and the broader public regarding Ukraine. Sarah Lyall, New York Times, Sadly, but perhaps unsurprisingly, those posts, too, inspired ire from their followers, who claimed Hart was lying and trying to gaslight them.Įj Dickson, Rolling Stone, 21 Mar. Rodney Ho, ajc, 12 June 2022 Another, Cora, is saddled with a swinish husband who tries to gaslight her whenever his chronic infidelity is exposed. Jacob Siegal, BGR, 12 June 2022 The Cabinet wife who spoke out during Watergate and the Nixon administration’s campaign to gaslight her into silence. 2019 Recent Examples on the Web: Verb Don’t fall into the trap of trying to gaslight the public to avoid liability or to save face.Įxpert Panel®, Forbes, 21 June 2022 This documentary profiles the Cabinet wife who spoke out during Watergate - and the Nixon administration’s campaign to gaslight her into silence. Jacques Kelly,, In George Smith’s time, the museum lacked not only electrical light, but gaslight as well. 2021 Its rooftop cupola was reproduced as a reminder of the gaslight era.
#Gaslight defenition series#
Larry Wolff, The New York Review of Books, 22 July 2021 The series includes Sloan’s famous etching of a woman kneeling in her nightgown while turning down a gaslight before joining her lover amid the rumpled sheets of their bed. 2022 In discussing these books, Wolff explores the profound impact of gaslight and the development of projection technologies on opera. Michael Gorra, The New York Review of Books, 6 Apr.
Recent Examples on the Web: Noun So Dickens says, on this day when the sun seems to have died, and the haggard glow of gaslight can barely brighten the mist.