persecution complex

British  

noun

1. psychol an acute irrational fear that other people are plotting one's downfall and that they are responsible for one's failures

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Example Sentences

You'll notice that his persecution complex was in full effect even then, as he whines to Walters that nobody's ever been treated as unfairly as he has been.

From Salon

"Instead of having an organic connection with the Canadian society, a lot of the people are just thrown in at a young age, making them vulnerable to a sanitised and linear understanding of being Sikh," he says, adding that wanting to "belong somewhere" might snare them "in a persecution complex".

From BBC

He has a tenuous relationship to reality, and increasingly retreats into victimology and a persecution complex.

From Salon

“Unfortunately, it will embolden Trump’s core supporters because he has cultivated this persecution complex, and being indicted on what may be a questionably strong case is only going to strengthen the persecution complex,” said Mr. Alden.

From New York Times

He has a weirdly unbalanced persecution complex about the West.

From Washington Post