How to Use gaslighting in a Sentence

gaslighting

noun

• The meaning of gaslighting has evolved over the years, Mr. Sokolowski said.
  — Joseph Pisani, WSJ, 28 Nov. 2022
• That gaslighting is a word at all, let alone word of the year, is something to shout about.
  — Claire Cohen, Vogue, 1 Dec. 2022
• And for all the gaslighting, the message seems awfully clear.
  — Amy Westervelt, The New Republic, 19 July 2023
• Thank you for your perfect response to his gaslighting.
  — Annie Lane, oregonlive, 27 Mar. 2023
• That should stop, absolutely, the gaslighting and all that s–t?
  — Glenn Rowley, Billboard, 15 May 2023
• Problems of grief and gaslighting (think of the woman in the haunted house whom nobody in town believes) have always been subtext in scary flicks.
  — Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2022
• The blatant gaslighting is also straight out of the cult playbook, according to Hassan.
  — Elizabeth Yuko, Rolling Stone, 18 Sep. 2021
• But that aspect of gaslighting did not make it into the popular understanding of the word.
  — Nicole Hemmer, CNN, 1 Dec. 2022
• The gaslighting that comes with the validation of our music and culture but the erasure of our bodies is almost normal.
  — New York Times, 21 June 2021
• Her silent duplicity toward Needy—in effect, her gaslighting of Needy—is a matter of life and death.
  — Richard Brod, The New Yorker, 1 Sep. 2021
• But, the publisher notes, the meaning of gaslighting has expanded even further in recent years.
  — Wyatte Grantham-Philips, USA TODAY, 28 Nov. 2022
• Americans are unlikely to fall for 12 pages of narrative gaslighting, and the buck for that dark episode stops with President Biden.
  — The Editorial Board, wsj.com, 6 Apr. 2023
• The gaslighting, the puerile tweets, the divisiveness, the rampant ignorance and the utter inability to put the country before his fragile ego.
  — S.e. Cupp Tribune News Service (tns), Star Tribune, 7 Aug. 2020
• What Is Self-Gaslighting? Self-gaslighting involves denying your own reality or version of events.
  — Erica Sweeney, Men's Health, 6 Mar. 2023
• Jenkins, in July’s fantasy of grift and gaslighting, plays a paranoid and controlling patriarch—and renders him both hateful and pitiable.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2021
• Their relationship is fueled by their undisputed and shared lust, but is also filled with lies and apparent gaslighting.
  — Bianca Betancourt, Harper's BAZAAR, 8 Aug. 2022
• But my upbringing in the shadow of Confederate Mount Rushmore shows how effective systemic racial gaslighting can be.
  — Andre Henry, Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2022
• Topics in these special meditations include breakups, gaslighting or rejection, and the coming out process.
  — Zee Krstic, Good Housekeeping, 30 Nov. 2022
• Is what’s happening to scientists now really any different than the gaslighting that anyone who studies climate change might have felt, though?
  — Adam Rogers, Wired, 16 Sep. 2020
• A lot of the conversation about your relationship, Natalie, was the gaslighting that was happening in the relationship.
  — Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar. 2022
• But the national gaslighting also seems to be working, by putting Russia’s shocked population back into its usual passive mode, and portraying Putin as stronger than ever.
  — Robyn Dixon, Washington Post, 8 July 2023
• Gaslighting: The narcissist uses a manipulation strategy known as gaslighting to make the victim doubt his or her own ability to make a decision or take an action.
  — Fortune Well, 3 Mar. 2023
• Eventually, the evidence overwhelmed the cover-up, and despite the gaslighting, scapegoating, lying, and intimidation, the truth caught up with the regime and contributed to the eventual downfall of the Soviet Union in 1991.
  — Peter Keough, BostonGlobe.com, 23 June 2022
• An unconventional commentary on the nature of gaslighting and the ramifications of domestic abuse, The Invisible Man is a gripping sci-fi thriller that keeps viewers guessing up to the very end.
  — Men's Health, 17 Mar. 2023
• In recent years, medical gaslighting and gender bias has also been highlighted as a major roadblock to proper and accurate treatment for women.
  — Nikki Brown, PEOPLE.com, 9 June 2022
• Our social reality has become so absurd — political gaslighting has reversed right and wrong, demeaned truth and faith — that Snyder’s reliance on the verities, summoning social unity through myth, goes against the grain.
  — Armond White, National Review, 19 Mar. 2021
• This gaslighting, while hardly surprising, is exhausting.
  — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2023
• Gender gaslighting is also happening in America’s schools.
  — Mary Rice Hasson, National Review, 17 Oct. 2021
• Renfield isn’t just a loyal servant and enabler dragging unsuspecting human prey to their demise in Dracula’s lair but another victim too, his life force sucked dry not via fang but rather coercion, manipulation and gaslighting.
  — Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2023
• Despite unprecedented gaslighting, disinformation, and violent rhetoric and despite losing the popular vote by more than 3 million ballots, Trump was still crowned king by a system designed for and controlled by white patriarchy.
  — Kerry O’Grady, The Denver Post, 11 Jan. 2020

Last Updated: 9 May 2024