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accosts

verb as in approach for conversation or solicitation

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Example Sentences

After moving from the bar to an empty booth, an obese dancer accosts me, inexplicably furious.

In Spain, when a mendicant meets a brother beggar, he thus accosts him: "Has your courtesy taken chocolate?"

Falsehood moves about in white robes and innocently accosts us in the dress of a white lie.

Achates first accosts Aeneas: 'Goddess-born, what purpose now rises in thy spirit?

Meanwhile the King of Heaven's omnipotence accosts Juno as she gazes on the battle from a sunlit cloud.

Antiphon approaches Socrates in hope of drawing away his associates, and in their presence thus accosts him.

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On this page you'll find 31 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to accosts, such as: confront, annoy, bother, welcome, cross, and hail.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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