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Molest

verb

(past & past part. molested; pres. part. molesting)

Harass or assault sexually; make indecent advances to.

Annoy continually or chronically. Synonyms: beset, chevvy, chevy, chivvy, chivy, harass, harry, hassle, plague, provoke. "This man harasses his female co-workers"

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"Molest" Quotes from Famous Books

... looked about. He discovered Bridge lying upon the floor and sniffed at him. The man lay perfectly quiet. He had heard that often times a bear will not molest a creature which it thinks dead. Be that as it may Beppo chanced at that moment to glance toward the doorway. There, silhouetted against the lesser darkness without, he saw the figures of Columbus Blackie and The Oskaloosa Kid and with a growl he charged ...

— The Oakdale Affair • Edgar Rice Burroughs

... him, the Cid retaliated by invading Alfonso's realm. None of the courtiers daring to oppose him, Alfonso had cause bitterly to repent of what he had done, and humbly assured his powerful subject he would never molest him again. Ever ready to forgive an ungrateful master, the Cid withdrew, and for a time king and subject ...

— The Book of the Epic • Helene A. Guerber

... upon the townsmen by talking thus rationally and smoothly to them, that they went away; and though they did not give any consent to their staying there, yet they did not molest them, and the poor people continued there three or four days longer without any disturbance. In this time they had got some remote acquaintance with a victualing house on the outskirts of the town, to whom they called ...

— History of the Plague in London • Daniel Defoe

... Americans had made their earthworks so strong that Howe decided not to molest them. He remembered too well the Bunker Hill affair. So with all his army he sailed away to Halifax, leaving behind much powder and many cannon, which you may be sure the Americans ...

— Stories of Later American History • Wilbur F. Gordy

... entered the room. I related the whole affair to the bishop, exaggerating the uproar, making much of the injustice of such proceedings, and railing at a vexatious police daring to molest travellers and to insult the sacred rights ...

— The Memoires of Casanova, Complete • Jacques Casanova de Seingalt

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