noun

• 1A person who sexually assaults or abuses someone, especially a woman or child.

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  • ‘a serial child molester’

• 2dated A person who pesters or harasses someone in an aggressive or persistent manner.

  ‘enthusiastic molesters of private property’

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  • ‘The force's zero-tolerance policy toward garden-ornament molesters has left them with a sticky problem.’
  • ‘I gave your molesters at the show the slightest possible sentence on your own account.’
  • ‘It seems that they were the earliest and greatest molesters of the Welsh.’
  • ‘In these Apocryphal accounts, they appear as the molesters, assailants, and destroyers of men.’
  • ‘Indeed, it seems naturally to have been the Danes, the great invaders, molesters, and wasters of this city.’