persecutory
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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Judge Freya Newbery said he was at the time an "undiagnosed schizophrenic" who held "paranoid and persecutory delusions".
From BBC • Sep. 1, 2025
“We know there’s a long tradition of boycotts and sanctions being used against persecutory regimes,” Mr. Cohan said last week.
From New York Times • May 12, 2022
The treatment also has been seen as effective in reducing paranoia, anxiety disorders, persecutory delusions, and hearing or movement limitations in real life.
From Washington Post • Sep. 10, 2021
But Becerra has discretion to enforce the law as he chooses, and there is nothing scandalous or persecutory about how he has decided to go about that task.
From Slate • Mar. 29, 2017
On this basis he developed various persecutory ideas, exclusively against those who had anything to do with his care and safe-keeping.
From Studies in Forensic Psychiatry by Glueck, Bernard
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