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See definition of badgering on Dictionary.com
  • as inteasing
  • as inribbing

synonyms for badgering

  • irritating
  • joking
  • mocking
  • bothering
  • disturbing
  • exasperating
  • harassing
  • kidding
  • plaguing
  • provoking
  • ribbing
  • taunting
  • tickling
  • tormenting
  • vexing

antonyms for badgering

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  • comforting
  • praising
  • regaling
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    How to use badgering in a sentence

    The people are very unsettled, thanks to this disputed boundary question, and the badgering of the Natal Government.
    THE LUCK OF GERARD RIDGELEYBERTRAM MITFORD
    But that can be no possible reason for badgering the life out of his father's widow twenty years after his father's death!
    ORLEY FARMANTHONY TROLLOPE
    Go, and sit, and look sheepish, and sing hymns with the people I've been badgering; and everybody seeing me!
    RHODA FLEMING, COMPLETEGEORGE MEREDITH
    Abdul Kerim escaped with a slight reprimand, but I afterwards heard the other men badgering him.
    TRANS-HIMALAYA, VOL. 2 (OF 2)SVEN HEDIN
    There was more of this pleading and emotional badgering until finally out of sheer exhaustion Angela said yes.
    THE "GENIUS"THEODORE DREISER
    The Managers organized an inquisition for the purpose of torturing and badgering Ross into submission.
    THE CLANSMANTHOMAS DIXON
    It took her six years of badgering her protector, from 1819 to 1825, to bring about the eviction.
    SHE STANDS ACCUSEDVICTOR MACCLURE
    They cannot break out in revolt at the badgering of the witness.
    THE MAN IN COURTFREDERIC DEWITT WELLS
    The talk dragged along little by little and Flossie began badgering young Haight.
    VANDOVER AND THE BRUTEFRANK NORRIS
    He pretended to eat, and forced himself to talk, joining in with Ellis, who was badgering the Dummy about Flossie.
    VANDOVER AND THE BRUTEFRANK NORRIS
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    WORDS RELATED TO BADGERING

    • badgering
    • badinage
    • banter
    • bothering
    • chaff
    • disturbing
    • exasperating
    • harassing
    • irritating
    • joking
    • kidding
    • mocking
    • plaguing
    • provoking
    • raillery
    • taunt
    • taunting
    • tickling
    • tormenting
    • vexing
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