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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
- This sustained defiance of the elements provoked occasional judgments in the shape of a "hoast" (cough), and the head of the house was then exhorted by his women folk to "change his feet" if he had happened to walk through a burn on his way home, and was pestered generally with sanitary precautions. Stories by English Authors: Scotland (Selected by Scribners)
- He is still a little straitened, a little pestered by the doubting and critical optics which our time turns upon man, a little victimized by his knowledge of limitary conditions and secondary laws. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865
- Once their stateroom is fixed up to their liking they stay put, save theirselves the bother of getting pestered by nobodies. MR STARLIGHT
- Matt Wrack, general secretary of the Fire Brigades Union, said his former wife and student son had been "pestered" by reporters, with one "rooting about" in dustbins. The Guardian World News
- She might never have left home had her husband-to-be Patrick not pestered her with repeated proposals.
- All the way to his dorm room he pestered me about it, and I, quite easily, maintained my silence.
- a little kittle left her, an 'the big-kittled gal was jest pestered with beaux. The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times
- Others complained about the fact that their salary was made public, leading to them being pestered for loans by old school friends and relatives. Times, Sunday Times
- Pegu: if any contrary wind had come, we had throwen many of our things ouer-boord: for we were so pestered with people and goods, that there was scant place to lie in. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
- When it is considered what a pudder is made about essences, and how much all sorts of knowledge, discourse, and conversation are pestered and disordered by the careless and confused use and application of words, it will perhaps be thought worth while thoroughly to lay it open. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
