Pestering
Contents
English
Verb
pestering
- Present participle of pester.
Noun
Pestering (plural Pesterings)- An act or instance of annoying somebody.
- 1984, Richard Shannon, Gladstone: 1809-1865
- By swaying the Welsh he could at the same time deflect the pesterings he suffered from in England about the 1886 policy...
- 1984, Richard Shannon, Gladstone: 1809-1865
Thesaurus
adverse criticism, aggravating, animadversion, annoying, aspersion, bad notices, bad press, blandishment, bothering, bothersome, buttonholing, cajolement, cajolery, cajoling, captiousness, carping, cavil, caviling, censoriousness, coaxing, criticism, demanding, disturbing, dunning, exasperating, exception, faultfinding, flak, galling, hairsplitting, harassing, hit, home thrust, hostile criticism, hypercriticalness, hypercriticism, importunate, importunateness, importune, importunity, imputation, insistent, irking, irksome, irritating, knock, nagging, niggle, niggling, nit, nit-picking, obloquy, overcriticalness, pesky, pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential, pettifogging, plaguesome, plaguey, plaguing, plying, pressing, pressure, priggishness, provoking, quibble, quibbling, rap, reflection, reproachfulness, slam, stricture, swipe, taking exception, teasing, tiresome, tormenting, trichoschistism, troublesome, troubling, urgency, urgent, urging, vexatious, vexing, wearisome, wheedling, worrisome, worrying