coerced

[ koh-ursd ]

adjective

1. forced or compelled through intimidation or authority, especially without regard for individual volition:

   A judge decided that key evidence, obtained from a coerced 14-year-old boy, was unreliable.

verb

1. the simple past tense and past participle of coerce ( def ).

Other Words From

• un·co·erced adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of coerced¹

coerce ( def ) + -ed ²( def )

Example Sentences

The report alleges that the workers were likely to have been forced or coerced, but it did not offer proof confirming the work terms and conditions.

From Washington Post

A Northern Virginia attorney was arrested in Miami on Thursday and accused of coercing underage girls into sexual activity.

From Washington Post

Monticello and Mount Vernon flourished only because of the coerced labor of people who had been forcibly recast as Jupiter, Caesar, Hercules and Cupid.

From Washington Post

Uber is facing a class-action lawsuit over Proposition 22 that alleges the company is illegally coercing its drivers to support the ballot measure that seeks to keep workers classified as independent contractors.

From TechCrunch

During the call, she claimed that she was coerced into pleading guilty to two other drunken driving charges after being released from a hospital and that her discipline case in 2013 had no merit.

From ProPublica

Once people with ID are arrested, they are particularly susceptible to making coerced and often false confessions.

From The Daily Beast

No doubt, there are wrongful convictions that result from misidentification and coerced confessions.

From The Daily Beast

The police eventually obtained two written confessions that the brothers would describe as coerced.

From The Daily Beast

Then she allegedly coerced a female employee into having sex with her.

From The Daily Beast

Her mother, from the United States, had been coerced by friends into organizing the operation.

From The Daily Beast

A meeting of the canons who had fled from Lige, and their brethren who had been coerced into voting, was held at Namur.

From Project Gutenberg

"A machine cannot be coerced," the robot-confessor told him.

From Project Gutenberg

So Forbes had coerced and terrified soldiers of his who were far superior to him in bulk and brawn.

From Project Gutenberg

Alice went into her arms, eager to be coerced and decided for: "And you really think it is my duty to go?"

From Project Gutenberg

Specs coerced Felix into the hall and warned him to go home and behave himself like a good dog.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• compelled
• contrived
• enforced
• involuntary
• mandatory
• unwilling