pesky
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3.6
- adjective
- /ˈpɛski/
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- She found the pesky noise from the construction site very irritating.
- a pesky problem
Any flyaways laying down all of those pesky little baby hairs?
- Any flyaways laying down all of those pesky little baby hairs?
- We'll come back to these once they've been fully charged up and I'm ready to dispatch those pesky Jedis.
- Some some little pesky little intention like that, right?
- But that would all be for naughty if they kept that pesky Samsung only limitation.
- He's chosen, but there's this pesky thing that he has a stepbrother, right?
- Order today and get Jenny Cell's dark spot corrector to visibly reduce those pesky sunspots free.
- Order today and get Jenicell's dark spot corrector to visibly reduce those pesky sunspots free.
- And the other thing that that you had to do, which is crystals of pesky things.
Examples
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I want all those pesky rain clouds sucked up by the end of the day.
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It's those pesky autograph hounds.
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Use this to get past pesky cats and guard dogs.
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I think I can help you with this pesky Bailey situation.
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A wrong number, even, it might have been, or another pesky telephone solicitor.
Fiction book (1994) -
There'd be no need to mess around with pesky design details or marketing plans.
Academic text (2005) -
The kind of trouble that had pesky credit card agents calling during dinnertime.
Fiction book (2001) -
With those pesky interlopers out of the way, I can finally execute the rest of my plan.
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Say goodbye to pesky monthly fees and overdraft charges because Chime has none.
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Those pesky mosquitoes kept buzzing around during our picnic.
Synonyms
392
1.0
Making someone feel bothered or irritated
80
2.9
Making someone feel annoyed or impatient
49
3.9
Causing worry or annoyance and hard to deal with
14
3.5
Causing annoyance or trouble
11
7.7
Making someone feel annoyed or frustrated
1
8.7
Causing people to feel annoyed or frustrated
1
9.4
Something that makes people feel annoyed or causes small repeated problems
A small pain or problem that keeps annoying you
A person who annoys another person by asking again and again
Causes annoyance or small trouble that makes you feel irritated
Annoying and causing repeated small problems or used to complain strongly
Making people feel annoyed or troubled
Antonyms
How Annoying
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Pesky probably comes from the older word pest and the verb pester, which mean 'a nuisance' or 'to annoy', so you can remember a pesky thing as a small pest that keeps bothering you.