All persecution synonyms

noun persecution

• abusiveness — using, containing, or characterized by harshly or coarsely insulting language: an abusive author; abusive remarks.
• callousness — made hard; hardened.
• hard time — a period of difficulties or hardship.
• wrong — not in accordance with what is morally right or good: a wrong deed.
• molestation — to bother, interfere with, or annoy.
• bashing — a crushing blow.
• cruelty — Cruelty is behaviour that deliberately causes pain or distress to people or animals.
• downs — from higher to lower; in descending direction or order; toward, into, or in a lower position: to come down the ladder.
• hardship — a condition that is difficult to endure; suffering; deprivation; oppression: a life of hardship.
• excruciation — Some excruciating pain.
• boo-boo — A boo-boo is a silly mistake or blunder.
• hurt — to cause bodily injury to; injure: He was badly hurt in the accident.
• hard times — a period of difficulties or hardship.
• murderousness — The state or condition of being murderous.
• fiendishness — The quality of being fiendish.
• insensitiveness — Quality of being insensitive.
• forcibleness — The quality of being forcible.
• hardheartedness — The state of being hardhearted.
• bedevilment — to torment or harass maliciously or diabolically, as with doubts, distractions, or worries.
• black and blue — discolored, as by bruising; exhibiting ecchymosis: a black-and-blue mark on my knee.
• galling — that galls; chafing; irritating; vexing; exasperating.
• martyrdom — the condition, sufferings, or death of a martyr.
• harassment — the act or an instance of harassing, or disturbing, pestering, or troubling repeatedly; persecution: She sued her boss for sexual harassment.
• abaddon — the Devil (Revelation 9:11)
• booboos — a stupid or silly mistake; blunder.
• hate crime — a crime, usually violent, motivated by prejudice or intolerance toward an individual’s national origin, ethnicity, color, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, or disability.
• heartlessness — The characteristic of being heartless.
• oppression — the exercise of authority or power in a burdensome, cruel, or unjust manner.
• cruciation — (obsolete) torture; torment.
• hades — Geology. the angle between a fault plane and the vertical, measured perpendicular to the strike of the fault; complement of the dip.
• mercilessness — without mercy; having or showing no mercy; pitiless; cruel: a merciless critic.
• impalement — to fasten, stick, or fix upon a sharpened stake or the like.
• gehenna — the valley of Hinnom, near Jerusalem, where propitiatory sacrifices were made to Moloch. II Kings 23:10.
• lower world — Classical Mythology. the regions of the dead, conceived of as lying beneath the surface of the earth; Hades; the underworld.