(a.) One who gripes; an oppressor; an extortioner.
Example Sentences:
(1) Gove has been eager to paint teachers as lazy gripers unwilling to embrace change.
Groper
Definition:
(n.) One who gropes; one who feels his way in the dark, or searches by feeling.
Example Sentences:
(1) If there is a man who is unpleasant, who is a creep and a groper, then it's generally an abuse of power.
(2) Or we say there have always been muggers and gropers, they’re only global news when they’re not white.
(3) As a fugitive paedophile, Polanski had no good name to besmirch, particularly when the alleged besmirching consisted of the accusation that he was a groper.
(4) I was groped on the bus in London and clearly said what was happening, and everybody else looked out the window - not one person stood up to help me, or sent the message to the groper that this was not socially acceptable, and that he would be challenged.
(5) Instead, the Republican nominee blurted out four words: “That makes me smart.” For once Trump – serial liar and alleged serial groper – had inadvertently revealed a great truth.
(6) But George Osborne is reportedly dedicated to ensuring a male succession and the Lib Dems deserve credit from all anti-feminists, not just for rallying round one notorious, but senior, groper against his numerous female accusers, but for Clegg’s unblemished success rate in keeping Lib Dem women out of the cabinet.
(7) They sought only to uphold the law: to remind other women of their right to travel unmolested, gropers that they must keep their hands off, and police that they should arrest offenders.
(8) Are naked breasts, Murdoch puzzles aloud, still as potent a marketing tool as they were in 1969 when the BBC's high-ranking gropers were learning their various trades, and he began grooming tabloid readers with risqué glamour shots?
(9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest And while Ed Miliband – who last week taunted David Cameron over his all-male front bench – can pride himself on having more women in his top team than any other leader, his party is not without its gropers and its bullies and its unreconstructed chauvinists, all nursing their bitter little knots of resentment.
(10) When someone is a bigot or a racist, it's zero tolerance, but there is clearly a high level of tolerance around being a groper.
(11) Having never thought to be interesting, interested, funny, kind, the groper presumes that he's taking some shortcut to intimacy.
(12) One piece of evidence not presented to the jury in Rolf Harris's trial illustrates with grim eloquence, in retrospect, the prosecution notion that the veteran entertainer was a man of two distinct sides: the avuncular and trustworthy public figure, and lurking behind, the groper and abuser.In 1985 – when, the court heard, Rolf Harris was still assaulting women and was still having an occasional sexual relationship with his daughter's best friend – he fronted an educational video to warn young people about the dangers of sexual abuse.