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verb

Pester v. t. (past & past part. pestered; pres. part. pestering)

To trouble; to disturb; to annoy; to harass with petty vexations. "We are pestered with mice and rats." "A multitude of scribblers daily pester the world."

To crowd together in an annoying way; to overcrowd; to infest. (Obs.) "All rivers and pools... pestered full with fishes."

adjective

pestered adj. Troubled persistently especially with petty annoyances; as, the exasperation of a pestered animal.

Synonyms: annoyed, harassed, harried.

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"Pestered" Quotes from Famous Books

... accident seen Ravengar commit a crime. She would not tell me what crime; she would give me no particulars. Still, I gathered that, if not actually murder, it was at least homicide. After that Ravengar had pestered her to marry him—had even said that he would be content with a purely formal marriage; had offered her enormous sums to agree to his proposal; and had been constantly repulsed by her. She admitted to me that he ...

— Hugo - A Fantasia on Modern Themes • Arnold Bennett

... thou, then, exasperate, thou idle immaterial skein of sleave silk, thou green sarcenet flap for a sore eye, thou tassel of a prodigal's purse, thou? Ah, how the poor world is pestered with such water-flies, diminutives ...

— The History of Troilus and Cressida • William Shakespeare [Craig edition]

... actor out of work and an undischarged bankrupt. He demanded compensation for some fancied injury, would hear nothing of the valuable dog he had killed or the window he had broken, obliged Grubb by sheer physical obduracy to straighten his buckled front wheel, and pestered the struggling firm with a series of inhumanly worded solicitor's letters. Grubb answered them—stingingly, and put himself, Bert ...

— The War in the Air • Herbert George Wells

... crying out they are like to be ruined," said Percy; "the roads are cloyed and pestered, ...

— It Might Have Been - The Story of the Gunpowder Plot • Emily Sarah Holt

... in church Sunday. I know some young women who went to the parish church—Methodists they are—specially to see your new hats. There's some talk about them, I can tell you, and the village milliner is pestered to copy them. She keeps her eyes open for you. You disappointed a lot of people. You ought to go to church in the country. It's the most respectable ...

— The Man Between • Amelia E. Barr

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