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Pestering   /pˈɛstərɪŋ/   Listen
Pestering

adjective
1.
Causing irritation or annoyance.  Synonyms: annoying, bothersome, galling, irritating, nettlesome, pesky, pestiferous, plaguey, plaguy, teasing, vexatious, vexing.  "Aircraft noise is particularly bothersome near the airport" , "Found it galling to have to ask permission" , "An irritating delay" , "Nettlesome paperwork" , "A pesky mosquito" , "Swarms of pestering gnats" , "A plaguey newfangled safety catch" , "A teasing and persistent thought annoyed him" , "A vexatious child" , "It is vexing to have to admit you are wrong"



Pester

verb
(past & past part. pestered; pres. part. pestering)
1.
Annoy persistently.  Synonyms: badger, beleaguer, bug, tease.



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"Pestering" Quotes from Famous Books



... you been all this week?" says Math, "with the pigs rooting all over creation, and with that man of mine forever flinging your worthlessness in my face, and with that red-haired Suskind coming out of the twilight a-seeking after you every evening and pestering me with her soft lamentations? And for the matter of that, whatever ...
— Figures of Earth • James Branch Cabell

... buckler, the chariots and the horses of the party; but it is impossible for his lordship to govern well with such colleagues as he has—colleagues which have been forced upon him by family influence, and who are continually pestering him into measures anything but conducive to the country's honour and interest. If Palmerston would govern well, he must get rid of them; but from that step, with all his courage and all his greatness, he will shrink. Yet how proper and easy a step ...
— The Romany Rye - A Sequel to 'Lavengro' • George Borrow

... wise horse to refuse to harm the baby? Another time, when a little boy came up behind him, when the flies were pestering him, Prince, instead of kicking him, just lifted up one of his hind-feet, ...
— The Nursery, April 1873, Vol. XIII. - A Monthly Magazine for Youngest People • Various

... pestering George to go to California with him, and it must be owned that on this one occasion George had given ...
— It Is Never Too Late to Mend • Charles Reade

... quarter of an hour with Mr. Screw, and in the afternoon Barker would call upon him and offer such consolation as was in his power; and when he had called on Claudius, he would call on the Countess Margaret and tell her what sad sceptics these legal people were, everlastingly pestering peaceable citizens in the hope of extracting from them a few miserable dollars. And he would tell her how sorry he was that Claudius should be annoyed, and how he, Barker, would see him through—that ...
— Doctor Claudius, A True Story • F. Marion Crawford


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