Coerced
Coerced adjective - Not made or done willingly or by choice.
Usage example: coerced participation that couldn't last
Forced is a synonym for coerced in participle topic. In some cases you can use "Forced" instead the word "Coerced" as an adjective or a verb.
Forced
Forced adjective - Not made or done willingly or by choice.
Usage example: participation in the program was forced
Coerced is a synonym for forced in participle topic. You can use "Coerced" instead the word "Forced" as an adjective or a verb, if it concerns topics such as compulsory, enforced.
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- affected and coerced
- affected and forced
- involuntary and coerced
- involuntary and forced
- bound and coerced
- bound and forced
- artificial and coerced
- artificial and forced
- unnatural and coerced
- unnatural and forced
- contrived and coerced
- contrived and forced
- constrained and coerced
- constrained and forced
Both words in one sentence
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They're routinely coerced/forced into unspeakable acts and are extra-prone to mental illness, and the resulting behavior is a big part of the reason they're called "ghouls" to begin with.
- Sexual abuse encompasses abusive acts that have a sexual component: rape, various forms of dubiously-consensual sex, forced or coerced sex of any sort, child molestation, forced sex work and sexual harassment.
Source: Useful Notes / Abuse - Also compare with More Than Mind Control where the character is coerced mentally into believing that the only way available is something that he/she doesn't like, thus being forced to make a free will choice of steering themselves into evil.
Source: Forced into Evil
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