Used in a Sentence

lynched

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for lynched.

Editorial note

A racist is on a street corner calling for ethnic cleansing, and waving pictures of black people being lynched (found via Reddit, by the way).

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Definitions2
Parts of speech1

Quick take

(transitive) To execute (somebody) without a proper legal trial or procedure, especially by hanging and backed by a mob.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of lynched gathered in one view.

verb

(transitive) To execute (somebody) without a proper legal trial or procedure, especially by hanging and backed by a mob.

verb

(transitive, colloquial, by extension) To castigate severely.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for lynched.

verb

(transitive) To execute (somebody) without a proper legal trial or procedure, especially by hanging and backed by a mob.

verb

(transitive, colloquial, by extension) To castigate severely.

Example sentences

1

A racist is on a street corner calling for ethnic cleansing, and waving pictures of black people being lynched (found via Reddit, by the way).

2

You're not going to be lynched for being unemployed, but do you proudly admit it at parties?

3

In USA, in the south when it was negroes who were lynched it meant exactly that.

4

It's not right when people unjustifiably get socially lynched by the mob and it happens often.

5

Black people were being regularly lynched, firebombed, raped and imprisoned for little more than being black and asserting basic human rights.

6

On HN that's not a gadfly as so much an invitation to be lynched.

7

If you make even one minor error in judgment, be prepared to be lynched.

8

I, personally, would prefer allowing a few more jerks in order to also allow people to be honest without being lynched.

9

It's not like black people have been lynched well within living memory or continue to be blatantly murdered by pigs and other thugs with no consequences [1:5].

10

I suspect few would be as cool with this reasoning if a comedy came out of Asia featuring a climax where Obama is lynched.

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But I doubt the lynched would agree we lucked into better circumstances.

12

Nobody got beaten, jailed, shot, or lynched.

Quote examples

1

I mean, saying gamergate is for "journalistic integrity" is like saying the KKK is "anti crime" because they may have, on occasion, lynched people who actually performed crimes.

2

They were lynched and not allowed to marry "whites".

3

No, we simply have "skeptics" that've decried climatologists as anti-industrial communists that ought to be tarred and feathered if not outright lynched for their views.

4

I'd like to show this to my company, but I'm afraid I'll offend coworkers who make their money at the company "doing Agile" and I'll get lynched, not to mention fired.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use lynched in a sentence?

A racist is on a street corner calling for ethnic cleansing, and waving pictures of black people being lynched (found via Reddit, by the way).

What does lynched mean?

(transitive) To execute (somebody) without a proper legal trial or procedure, especially by hanging and backed by a mob.

What part of speech is lynched?

lynched is commonly used as verb.