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- verb UK Simple past tense and past participle of
gaslight .
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Examples
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More vulgar and witless by the week, and thoroughly disgusting (without being remotely suspenseful) as it replays the graphic deaths of the previous gay homeowners, this episode finds a gaslighted Vivian (poor Connie Britton) fearing she's losing her mind — a condition many viewers may identify with as they wonder why they're still watching this sick joke of a hot mess.
Beyond the Turkey: Critic's Guide to Thanksgiving Week TV 2011
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I felt gaslighted, and idiotic, and completely mortified.
Nora Ephron: The D Word Nora Ephron 2010
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I felt gaslighted, and idiotic, and completely mortified.
Nora Ephron: The D Word Nora Ephron 2010
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I felt gaslighted, and idiotic, and completely mortified.
Nora Ephron: The D Word Nora Ephron 2010
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I felt gaslighted, and idiotic, and completely mortiÂfied.
Nora Ephron: The D Word Nora Ephron 2010
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Bushtwerp gaslighted the lot of you with his half-assed drawl.
Poll Has Bad News For Rudy: He's Way Down In South Carolina 2009
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For example if someone has been falsely accused of something really negative, or had a real smear campaign run against them, or is being “gaslighted”, “whitegloved”, etc.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Bryan Caplan’s Advice on Social Intelligence: 2009
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We may be making a great tragedy if what we hand back to them is a gaslighted country of continuing confusion.
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And now I walked back into it, and then along the paths, under the occasional lights, heading north and west through the dark unchanging park; and presently, ahead, I saw the gabled bulk of the Dakota, its gaslighted windows, and the flickering candle and kerosene lights of the truck farms beside it.
Time and Again Finney, Jack 1995
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But staring at the fire, sipping my drink and remembering the faces we'd seen — on the bus, the sidewalks of Fifth Avenue, on the El, in the gaslighted marble-and-dark-wood lobby of that strange vanished post office — I knew Kate was right.
Time and Again Finney, Jack 1995
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