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beleaguered
adjective as in attacked
Example Sentences
The buttoned-up, pantsuit-wearing former oncologist is not a repeat of the eager “Goldbergs” matriarch, but the character maintains the actor’s knack for playing beleaguered exhaustion for comedic effect.
The political fallout from the Scottish government's beleaguered bottle return scheme has been considerable, but the legal fallout could be equally as significant.
But resistance will be harder to sustain, in part because everyone is already so tired of fighting all of this, and also because the action is going to be coming so fast and furious on all fronts that bewildered and beleaguered groups on the left will hardly know where to make a stand or even start.
He played the former president as a beleaguered road dog who has gone delirious from being trapped on an endless campaign.
For an already beleaguered Ukraine, the development is yet another flashing danger sign.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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