gaslight
Example Sentences
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“It’s not your fault, Lexie. Don’t gaslight yourself into thinking it is.”
From Literature
Theodore Boutrous, a Times lawyer, accused the administration at a hearing before Friedman in a Washington court on Monday of "gaslighting" and "bad faith."
From Barron's
Many nights after the door was locked and the shutters closed, I sat on in the flickering gaslight, poring over old inventories and wholesalers’ statements.
From Literature
A separate source said: "It's like corporate gaslighting with top management saying that everything is going fine when all evidence is to the contrary. "
From BBC
Yet we may be gaslighting ourselves about the likelihood of either nation meeting its deadline for putting humans on the lunar surface—China in 2030, the U.S. in 2028.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
