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UK
/məlɪstˈeɪʃən/
]
[ US /ˌmoʊɫɛˈsteɪʃən/ ]
[ US /ˌmoʊɫɛˈsteɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
- the act of subjecting someone to unwanted or improper sexual advances or activity (especially women or children)
- the act of tormenting by continued persistent attacks and criticism
How To Use molestation In A Sentence
- Whereas pedophilia and hebephilia refer to psychological propensities, child molestation and child sexual abuse are used to describe actual sexual contact between an adult and someone who has not reached the legal age of consent. IsThatLegal?
- They solicited civic protection for their own conscientious practice of religion, pleading freedom from all oppression and molestation.
- He has been charged with seven counts of child molestation and two counts of administering intoxicating liquor to a minor with the intent of committing a crime.
- These peoples agreed that none of them would make peace with the Blackfeet until the latter "shall permit them to hunt without molestation on the buffalo plains."
- If inbred molestation is cool, consider me James McQueen. ‘THE COTTAGE’
- The Emperor agrees that British subjects shall be allowed to carry on their mercantile pursuits, without molestation or restraint, at these designated cities and towns.
- Critics charge that Jennings, who is himself openly gay, condoned what they called statutory rape, even child molestation, because they say 20 years ago, he failed to tell authorities an underage student had sex with an older man. CNN Transcript Oct 2, 2009
- Any case of sexual molestation of a child should be reported to the police.
- Confusing, however, same-gender sexual violence with homosexuality, McClurkin misinterpreted the molestation as the reason for his gay sexual orientation. Irene Monroe: The messology of Bishop Eddie Long
- These visitors could sojourn there as long as they pleased, to go where they pleased at every hour of the day or night without molestation.