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US
/ˈhɛɹid/
]
[ UK /hˈæɹɪd/ ]
[ UK /hˈæɹɪd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
troubled persistently especially with petty annoyances
the vexed parents of an unruly teenager
a harried expression
her poor pestered father had to endure her constant interruptions
harassed working mothers
How To Use harried In A Sentence
- The premise of harried parents trying to raise quintuplets is interesting, but they do nothing with it. 108747998260188265 « Michael in Nashville
- All too often one envisages a harried producer refusing to agree to the cost of another trashed vehicle.
- I do not like being rude, but I like even less being badgered and harried.
- This little pamphlet provides the harried book agent with specific speeches to use in answering a variety of objections.
- They readily agreed, and so did the harried hotel desk clerk.
- Nicephorus' fleet harried the accessible southern coasts in retribution, but made no firm gains.
- Harried health workers picked through the impatient crowd, sorting out the sickest children.
- Instantly classified as a demon, the stranger is harried, persecuted and all but executed by the superstitious islanders.
- He chased and harried in pursuit of the ball, and a goal.
- Harried by constant fire and unsettled by the universal presence of landmines - the main cause of casualties - the Russian army has been thoroughly demoralised.