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UK
/pˈɛstəd/
]
[ US /ˈpɛstɝd/ ]
[ US /ˈpɛstɝd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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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 pestered In A Sentence
- So many parents are pestered and run out of patience and then they give in because the last thing they want is a row. The Sun
- And I literally made a hit-list of all the experts, the real brainiacs, and I just pestered him until they met with me.
- Emily split up from Rushton but he pestered her with constant text messages and phone calls.
- Gentle critick! when thou hast weighed all this, and considered within thyself how much of thy own knowledge, discourse, and conversation has been pestered and disordered, at one time or other, by this, and this only: — What a pudder and racket in The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
- In her classes, she pestered professors with questions about how the legal topic in question - wills and trusts, property law - might apply to pets.
- Steve and his girl engage in some backwards drag racing with some other juvies and get pestered by the cops to, ‘Cool it.’
- Foremost among the leaders who pressed me on Mr. Platt (who "pestered" him about me, to use his own words) were Mr. Quigg, Mr. Odellthen State Chairman of the Republican organization, and afterwards Governorand Mr. Hazel, now United States Judge. VIII. The New York Governorship
- He didn't like going into restaurants or pubs in case he was pestered. Provided You Don't Kiss Me: 20 Years with Brian Clough
- Afterward, they assumed cockroach form and pestered the poor fellow throughout his lonely meal!
- So many parents are pestered and run out of patience and then they give in because the last thing they want is a row. The Sun
