molestation

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Even after this creep was convicted in 2000 for the molestation, the Umpires Board gave him this award anyway.

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  1. The act of molesting.
  2. The state of being molested; annoyance; vexatious interference. The knight and his companion, having reached the castle, now passed the bridge, and entered the gate without molestation. Hoole, tr. of Ariosto's Orlando Furioso, xiv., note 8.
  3. In Scots law, the troubling or harassing of one in the possession of his lands. An action of molestation arises chiefly in questions of commonty or of controverted marches or land-boundaries. Synonyms See tease.

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  • Or had Heller, maybe aware that the molestation issue was coming to light, given his victim a push The reverend mother cleared her throat. —  Lisa Jackson - Shiver
  • He was charged with lewd or lascivious battery and lewd or lascivious molestation, according to the Marion County Sheriff's Office. —  news | OS | http://www.ocala.com
  • -- A substitute teacher who worked in Bremerton and Central Kitsap schools has been charged with first-degree child molestation, according to documents filed in Kitsap County Superior Court. —  KOMO - News - Top Stories
  • Hundreds of thousands of children are being stripped of their childhood innocence through rape, molestation, and other degrading and life-threatening forms of abuse each year, often for the sole purpose of the production and sale of internet-based child pornography. —  Feed of Eventbrite Events
  • Even after this creep was convicted in 2000 for the molestation, the Umpires Board gave him this award anyway. —  NewsByUs
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  1. = French molestation, from Middle Latin *molestatio(n-), from Latin molestare, trouble: see molest, v.
 

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