gaslight
to cause (a person) to doubt their judgment, memory, or sanity through the use of psychological manipulation: How do you know if your partner is gaslighting you?
to deceive (a person or group of people) through repetition of a constructed false narrative: The cable news networks have been gaslighting their viewers with partisan coverage of the bill.
light produced by the combustion of illuminating gas.
a gas burner or gas jet for producing light through the process of combustion.
Origin of gaslight
1Other words from gaslight
- gas·light·ed, gas·lit, adjective
- gas·light·ing, noun
Words Nearby gaslight
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How to use gaslight in a sentence
I’m just saying that is part of the mystery that we want to un-gaslight people about and this is a way to do it.
The great bamboo hunt: Arizona’s bizarre vote-examination effort gets more bizarre | Philip Bump | May 6, 2021 | Washington PostFrom a thematic standpoint, I was struck by the show’s exploration of how society can gaslight its scapegoats into believing—and thus embodying—the worst stereotypes about themselves.
The Controversy Around Amazon's Them Underscores the Trouble With Realistic Violence in Genre TV | Judy Berman | April 13, 2021 | TimeAmazon has left no stone unturned in its efforts to gaslight its own employees.
'You Can't Escape the Gravitational Pull of Jeff Bezos.' How Amazon Won the Preliminary Union Vote in Alabama | Abby Vesoulis | April 10, 2021 | TimeRWDSU President Stuart Appelbaum said in a statement offered to TechCrunch,Amazon has left no stone unturned in its efforts to gaslight its own employees.
Amazon defeats warehouse union push, RWDSU challenges results | Brian Heater | April 9, 2021 | TechCrunch“Amazon feels that it has to go to extremes like this in order to gaslight its workers about the dreadful working conditions at its Bessemer warehouse,” Appelbaum told the press in response to the ads.
Amazon goes on the offensive ahead of next week’s union vote counting | Brian Heater | March 26, 2021 | TechCrunch
Paxton was in the Army and visited the Village on the weekends to play gigs at the gaslight and the Commons.
Fact Vs. Fiction in ‘Inside Llewyn Davis’: The Real Story of Folk is Far Less Dejected Than the Movie | Jimmy So | December 4, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThe opening title card to Inside Llewyn Davis tells us that it is winter 1961 at the gaslight Café in Greenwich Village.
Fact Vs. Fiction in ‘Inside Llewyn Davis’: The Real Story of Folk is Far Less Dejected Than the Movie | Jimmy So | December 4, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThe gaslight was more than she could bear, she dropped her head again, covering her face with both hands.
Tessa Wadsworth's Discipline | Jennie M. DrinkwaterHere and there chandeliers were being lighted for the concerts, blazes of gaslight flared among the green trees.
The Nabob | Alphonse DaudetShe said if he would only permit the gaslight to remain burning, it would be all they would require.
Yorkshire Oddities, Incidents and Strange Events | S. Baring-GouldTheir application for admission led to the withdrawal of a bolt, and they stood within the gaslight of the passage.
The Well-Beloved | Thomas HardyThe drizzle had turned into long gray rods of rain; they streaked the gaslight and pricked the shallow pools unceasingly.
The Open Question | Elizabeth Robins
British Dictionary definitions for gaslight
/ (ˈɡæsˌlaɪt) /
a type of lamp in which the illumination is produced by an incandescent mantle heated by a jet of gas
the light produced by such a lamp
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