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synonyms for pestering

  • anger
  • bothering
  • discontent
  • distress
  • pique
  • botheration
  • displeasure
  • exasperation
  • frustration
  • harassment
  • indignation
  • irascibility
  • irritation
  • provocation
  • unhappiness
  • vexation
On this page you'll find 23 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to pestering, such as: anger, bothering, discontent, distress, pique, and botheration.

antonyms for pestering

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  • happiness
  • joy
  • pleasure
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How to use pestering in a sentence

Well, our old friend Peter Levine has been around pestering mother again.
THE OUTDOOR GIRLS IN THE SADDLELAURA LEE HOPE
Levine who had been pestering his brother-in-law for the last eighteen months, was pressing him hard now.
THE CREATORSMAY SINCLAIR
Well, what business have you got to come here pestering me with questions, as if you was trying to catch me?
BELFORD'S MAGAZINE, VOL. II, NO. 3, FEBRUARY 1889VARIOUS
Would I be likely to forget—would I so much as get the chance, with you pestering me almost before my hat is off?
CHRISTOPHER AND THE CLOCKMAKERSSARA WARE BASSETT
The sons of all the chief men among you are pestering my mother to marry them against her will.
THE ODYSSEYHOMER
Very quickly the enemy returned to the attack, pestering French on the right.
SIR JOHN FRENCHCECIL CHISHOLM
A large tribe of blacks came pestering us to go to their camp and have a dance, which we declined.
SUCCESSFUL EXPLORATION THROUGH THE INTERIOR OF AUSTRALIAWILLIAM JOHN WILLS
I probably shall be pestering you with telephone calls, urging you to have pity upon me in my loneliness.
DAWN O'HARA, THE GIRL WHO LAUGHEDEDNA FERBER
Probably nothing would have done so much to chase away the megrims that were always pestering him.
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS OF ROTTERDAMEPHRAIM EMERTON
The fools were always pestering him, but no one had ever offered so uncommon a bribe: five hundred francs.
THE PLACE OF HONEYMOONSHAROLD MACGRATH
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OCTOBER 26, 1985
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WORDS RELATED TO PESTERING

  • aggravation
  • bothering
  • bugging
  • disturbance
  • exasperation
  • harassment
  • hassle
  • headache
  • inconvenience
  • irritation
  • nuisance
  • pestering
  • problem
  • vexation
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.