pestering
- adjective
- /ˈpɛstərɪŋ/
:
molestando
- She found his pestering messages very annoying during her busy workday.
Examples
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His pestering behavior pushed his friends away, making them less likely to hang out.
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You schedule your follow up and then it's not pestering, it's expected.
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So I'm going to leave you with this image of Socrates, you know, down there bothering all the people in in Hades and pestering them and not letting them go.
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The constant pestering of the students made it hard for the teacher to focus.
Synonyms
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1.0
To annoy or disturb someone
449
2.0
To disturb or interrupt someone and make them feel annoyed
302
4.0
Annoy someone again and again to make them feel worried or uncomfortable
246
1.0
Make someone slightly angry or bothered by small repeated actions
85
3.7
To annoy someone by bothering them repeatedly
78
2.9
Make someone feel annoyed or impatient, often by repeated small actions
47
4.4
To bother someone again and again
39
4.7
To annoy someone by asking them the same thing many times
34
3.2
To annoy someone by asking for things again and again
23
6.7
Talk again and again about the same thing and annoy people
12
7.8
To surround a person with many requests and questions
8
2.6
To keep criticizing or telling someone to do things in an annoying way
7
4.9
To bother someone again and again until they feel angry
3
7.6
To bother someone again and again so they feel upset or tired
3
8.0
To annoy someone with small, repeated complaints
3
9.6
To ask someone again and again for something in an annoying way
1
8.2
To tease someone with repeated mean or mocking remarks
To keep asking or complaining to make someone do something
To annoy someone by asking or reminding them again and again
Antonyms
How Annoying
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Pestering comes from pester, which is related to pest and the idea 'an annoying insect or person'. Imagine a small bug that keeps coming back and will not go away, and you see why pestering means constantly annoying or bothering someone.